Effect of the solar wind proton entry into the deepest lunar wake

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Jun 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3712106n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 12, CiteID L12106

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Moon (1221), Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind Interactions With Unmagnetized Bodies, Space Plasma Physics: Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984)

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We study effect of the solar wind (SW) proton entry deep into the near-Moon wake that was recently discovered by the SELENE mission. Because previous lunar-wake models are based on electron dominance, no effect of SW proton entry has been taken into account. We show that the type-II entry of SW protons forms proton-governed region (PGR) to drastically change the electromagnetic environment of the lunar wake. Broadband electrostatic noise found in the PGR is manifestation of electron two-stream instability, which is attributed to the counter-streaming electrons attracted from the ambient SW to maintain the quasi-neutrality. Acceleration of the absorbed electrons up to ˜1 keV means a superabundance of positive charges of 10-5-10-7 cm-3 in the near-Moon wake, which should be immediately canceled out by the incoming high-speed electrons. This is a general phenomenon in the lunar wake, because PGR does not necessarily require peculiar SW conditions for its formation.

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