Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufm.p14b..02f&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #P14B-02
Physics
[2723] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetic Reconnection, [2756] Magnetospheric Physics / Planetary Magnetospheres, [2780] Magnetospheric Physics / Solar Wind Interactions With Unmagnetized Bodies
Scientific paper
The Venusian magnetotail is formed by solar wind magnetic flux tubes draping around the planet and stretched antisunward. The magnetotail topology represents two magnetic lobes separated by a thin current sheet. Such a configuration is a free energy reservoir. The accumulated energy is generally released by acceleration of planetary ions antisunward. But in the case of a magnetic reconnection, hypothetically appeared somewhere in the equatorial current sheet, some part of the planetary ions filling the tail, should be accelerated toward the planet. The present paper is devoted to the study of such sunward flows observed by IMA mass spectrometer onboard of the Venus Express orbiter. The case study shows rare accidently observed precipitations of the heavy ions in the nightside of the planet. The statistical study gives us the spatial distribution of such precipitations and conditions of their appearance.
Barabash Stas
Fedorov Arkady
Sauvaud J. J.
Volwerk Martin
Zhang Tianmeng
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