Sources of polar plume ion escape on Mars

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..267c&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.267

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The Mars pick-up ion transport model has been developed to study the relative role of kinetic processes on ion transport through near-Mars space. Mars does not have a strong, intrinsic dipole magnetic field and consequently the solar wind directly interacts with the dayside upper atmosphere causing particles to be stripped away from the atmosphere. The Mars Pickup Ion Model calculates the detailed ion velocity space distribution (VSD) through a background magnetic and electric field model at specific locations. The main objective of this work is to robustly probe the sources of polar plume ion escape relative to loss down the central tail. Because the VSDs are non-Maxwellian and reveal asymmetric, non-gyrotropic features, our simulation can investigate the role of kinetics in polar plume loss without using the Maxwellian assumptions of current MHD models.

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