Charlotte Götz

    Research Fellow

     

    Main Research Fields

    • Plasma physics at unmagnetized solar system bodies
    • Interaction of the solar wind with a comet
    • Magnetic field measurements and calibration
    • Solar wind transients

    Keywords

    Plasma physics, comets, solar wind, magnetic field measurements, magnetometers, data analysis

    Ongoing collaborations

    • Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, Uli Auster; TU Braunschweig, Germany
    • Martin Volwerk, Cyril Simon Wedlund; IWF Graz, Austria
    • Herbert Gunell; Umeå Universitet, Sweden
    • Hans Nilsson; IRF Kiruna, Sweden
    • Marina Galand; Imperial College, United Kingdom

    Publications

    First-, second- and third author publications:

    • Goetz, C., Koenders, C., Richter, I., Altwegg, K., Burch, J., Carr, C., Cupido, E., Eriksson, A., Güttler, C., Henri, P., Mokashi, P., Nemeth, Z., Nilsson, H., Rubin, M., Sierks, H., Tsurutani, B., Vallat, C., Volwerk, M., Glassmeier, K. H., 2016, First detection of a diamagnetic cavity at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 588, A24

    • Koenders, C., Perschke, C., Goetz, C., Richter, I., Motschmann, U., Glassmeier, K. H., 2016, Low-frequency waves at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Ob- servations compared to numerical simulations, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 594, A66

    • Koenders, C., Goetz, C., Richter, I., Motschmann, U., Glassmeier, K. H., 2016, Magnetic field pile-up and draping at intermediately active comets: results from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 2.0 AU, Monthly Notices of the Royal As- tronomical Society, 462, S235-S241

    • Nemeth, Z., Burch, J., Goetz, C., Goldstein, R., Henri, P., Koenders, C., Madanian, H., Mandt, K., Mokashi, P., Richter, I., Timar, A., Szego, K., 2016, Charged par- ticle signatures of the diamagnetic cavity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462, S415-S421

    • Kolokolova, L., Koenders, C., Goetz, C., Rosenbush, V., Kiselev, N., Hoang, T., Lazarian, A., 2016, Clues to cometary circular polarization from studying the magnetic field in the vicinity of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462, S422-S431

    • Goetz, C., Koenders, C., Hansen, K. C., Burch, J., Carr, C., Eriksson, A., Frühauff, D., Güttler, C., Henri, P., Nilsson, H., Richter, I., Rubin, M., Sierks, H., Tsurutani, B., Volwerk, M., Glassmeier, K. H., 2016, Structure and evolution of the diamag- netic cavity at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462, S459-S467

    • Gunell, H., Goetz, C., Eriksson, A., Nilsson, H., Simon Wedlund, C., Henri, P., Maggiolo, R., Hamrin, M., De Keyser, J., Rubin, M., Stenberg Wieser, G., Cessateur, G., Dhooghe, F., Gibbons, A., 2017, Plasma waves confined to the diamagnetic cavity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469, S84-S92

    • Goetz, C., Volwerk, M., Richter, I., Glassmeier, K. H., 2017, Evolution of the magnetic field at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469, S268-S275

    • Plaschke, F., Goetz, C., Volwerk, M., Richter, I., Frühauff, D., Narita, Y., Glass- meier, K. H., Dougherty, M. K., 2017, Fluxgate magnetometer offset vector determi- nation by the 3D mirror mode method, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469, S675-S684

    • Volwerk, M., Goetz, C., Richter, I., Delva, M., Ostaszewski, K., Schwingen- schuh,K., Glassmeier, K. H., 2018, A tail like no other. The RPC-MAG view of Rosetta’s tail excursion at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 614, A10

    • Gunell, H., Goetz, C., Wedlund, C. S., Lindkvist, J., Hamrin, M., Nilsson, H., LLera, K., Eriksson, A., Holmström, M., 2018, The infant bow shock: a new frontier at a weak activity comet, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 619, L2

    • Plaschke, F., Karlsson, T., Götz, C., Möstl, C., Richter, I., Volwerk, M., Eriksson, A., Behar, E., Goldstein, R., 2018, First observations of magnetic holes deep within the coma of a comet, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 618, A114

    • Goetz, C.,Tsurutani,B.T.,Henri,P.,Volwerk,M.,Behar,E.,Edberg,N.J.T., Eriksson, A., Goldstein, R., Mokashi, P., Nilsson, N., Richter, I., Wellbrock, A., Glassmeier, K. H., 2019, Unusually high magnetic fields in the coma of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its high-activity phase, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 630, A38

    • Volwerk, M., Goetz, C., Behar, E., Delva, M., Edberg, N. J. T., Erisson, A., Henri, P., LLera, K., Nilsson, H., Richter, I., Stenberg-Wieser, G., Glassmeier, K.-H., 2019, Dynamic field line draping at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during the Rosetta dayside excursion, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 630, A44
       
    • Gunell, H., Lindkvist, J., Goetz, C., Nilsson, H., Hamrin, M., 2019, Polarisation of a small-scale cometary plasma environment, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 630, A174
       
    • Goetz, C., Plaschke, F., Taylor, M. G. G. T., 2020, Singing Comet Waves in a Solar Wind Convective Electric Field Frame, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, 8, e87418
       
    • Goetz, C., Gunell, H., Johansson, F., LLera, K., Nilsson, H., Glassmeier, K.-H., and Taylor, M. G. G. T., 2021 Warm protons at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko – implications for the infant bow shock, Ann. Geophys., 39, 379–396

    A complete list, including 30 co-author publications, may be found on the ADS.

    Project/mission at ESA

    Rosetta

    Comet Interceptor

     

    Publicly available popular science talk in German

    ESA's Meet the Experts on Comets (Youtube)

    Collaboration with ShadowZone on the Rosetta mission in Kerbal Space program (Youtube)

    Bloomberg Quicktake on Interstellar Comets and Comet Interceptor