Bursty escape fluxes in plasma sheets of Mars and Venus

Details Bursty escape fluxes in plasma sheets of Mars and Venus Bursty escape fluxes in plasma sheets of Mars and Venus

Jan 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012georl..3901104d&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 39, Issue 1, CiteID L01104

Physics

Magnetospheric Physics: Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Sheet, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Waves And Instabilities (2471), Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind Interactions With Unmagnetized Bodies, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

Scientific paper

High resolution measurements of plasma in the plasma sheets of Mars and Venus performed by almost identical plasma instruments ASPERA-3 on the Mars Express spacecraft and ASPERA-4 on Venus Express reveal similar features of bursty fluxes of escaping planetary ions. A period of bursts lasts about 1-2 min. Simultaneous magnetic field measurements on Venus Express show that these burst-like features arise due to flapping motions of the plasma sheet. Their occurrence can be related to large-amplitude waves propagating on the plasma sheet surface and launched by reconnection in the magnetic tails.

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