Fig. 3
Magnetic field line draping around an active cometary nucleus. The IMF, with changing field direction, is transported toward the comet, where it crosses a possible bow shock, becomes mass loaded, and creates nested draping around the nucleus. The figure is adapted from Volwerk et al. (2017) and is not to scale. The orbit of the dayside excursion is shown above the nucleus.
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