Charge Exchange Of Solar Wind Alpha Particles In Cometary Atmospheres

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May 2005

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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2005, abstract #P44A-01

Physics

6025 Interactions With Solar Wind Plasma And Fields, 7831 Laboratory Studies

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Cometary far ultraviolet and soft X-ray emission can provide detailed insight in the interaction between comets and the solar wind. Using the two complementary experimental techniques of photon emission spectroscopy and translation energy spectroscopy we have studied state selective charge exchange in collisions between fully ionized helium and target gasses characteristic for cometary atmospheres. Experiments were performed at velocities typical for the solar wind (200-1500 km/s). From the experimental data cross sectional data sets are produced that are used for modeling the interaction of solar wind alpha particles with cometary atmospheres. Our model results demonstrate how the solar wind velocity and how cometary properties such as the composition of its atmosphere, the outgassing rate and the heliocentric distance are reflected in the helium line emission.

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