Fig. 2.
Time series of oxygen and water neutral number densities. Time series of the O2 (orange) and H2O (blue) neutral number densities (left y-axis) from March 6 to 23, 2016. The spacecraft was located at about 10 km from the nucleus. Note that the H2O neutral densities have been multiplied by 10−2 to fit on this scale. Time series of the total RPC–ICA energetic water-group ions (H2O+, H3O+, OH+) of cometary origin (green), corrected for the RPC–LAP spacecraft potential15 and integrated over the effective energy range of the Eley–Rideal reactions (50–300 eV)4 (right y-axis)