Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsm12b..01c&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SM12B-01
Physics
Plasma Physics
[2753] Magnetospheric Physics / Numerical Modeling, [2772] Magnetospheric Physics / Plasma Waves And Instabilities, [6225] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Mars, [7867] Space Plasma Physics / Wave/Particle Interactions
Scientific paper
At Mars, pickup ions from the exosphere are unstable to the generation of electromagnetic plasma waves with frequencies near the ion gyrofrequency in the planetary (spacecraft) frame. The characteristics of these waves can be used to infer properties of the pickup ions and the pickup process at Mars, and can indicate spatial and temporal variability of this exospheric loss process. To better understand the ion pickup and ion cyclotron wave generation process at Mars, we carry out 1D hybrid simulations where the simulation axis is tens of Mars radii long, oriented along the Mars-Sun line, and new ions are injected in a spatially non-uniform manner consistent with exospheric density profiles. This enables us to generally examine the relationship between wave amplitude and radial distance upstream of Mars, and to examine the temporal behavior and characteristics of the waves as they grow and are convected with the solar wind past Mars.
Cowee Misa M.
Gary Peter S.
Wei Hongduo
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