The effect of thermal conductivity on the outgassing and local gas dynamics from cometary nuclei

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Fig. 13

Variation in the CO₂ to H₂O number density mixing ratio obtained with DSMC calculations at 8 km from the surface with longitude at the equator for all cases with multi-species gas sources. The dotted dark vertical lines indicate the location of the midday, the terminator with the sunset at 90°, and midnight.

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