Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989icar...81..145b&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 81, Sept. 1989, p. 145-163.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Exosphere, Hydrogen Atoms, Particle Motion, Planetary Atmospheres, Radiation Pressure, Solar Radiation, Astronomical Photometry, Orbital Elements, Particle Trajectories, Perturbation Theory, Planets, Exosphere, Pressure, Radiation, Dynamics, Particles, Resonance, Scattering, Trajectories, Structure, Hydrogen, Venus, Earth, Sodium, Mars, Mercury (Planet), Calculations, Motion, Corona
Scientific paper
Exospheric theory is reformulated to provide for the analysis of dynamical underpinning of exospheric features. The formulation is based on the parabolic-cylindrical separability of the Hamiltonian that describes particle motions in the combined fields of planetary gravity and solar radiation pressure. An approximate solution for trajectory evolution in terms of orbital elements is derived and the role of the exopause in the tail phenomenon is discussed. Also, an expression is obtained for the bound constituent atom densities at outer planetocoronal positions along the planet-sun axis for the case of an evaporative, uniform exobase. This expression is used to estimate midnight density enhancements as a function of radial distance for the terrestrial planets.
Bishop James
Chamberlain Joseph W.
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