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Table 2

Summary of cases studied in Sect. 3.3 and their respective purposes.

Case rh 1 Section Purpose
May 2016 3.1 3.3.1 Symmetric to pre-perihelion October 2014 study performed by Galand et al. (2016) in terms of heliocentric distance.

March 2016 2.6 3.3.2 Symmetric to pre-perihelion October 2014 study performed by Galand et al. (2016) in terms of local photo-ionization frequency.

July 2016 3.4 3.3.3 Effect of a CIR on the electron-impact ionization frequency and the induced ionospheric population.

August 2016 3.5 3.3.3 “Return” of the July 2016 CIR, after one solar rotation, and illustration of a case of high plasma densities purely dependent on the electron-impact ionization.

April 2016 2.8 3.3.4 Illustration of the robustness of the model to high variations in cometocentric distance undergone during the return from the cometary tail excursion.

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