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Apr 2003
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #11826
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Among solar system bodies, planets like Mars and Venus and active comets share the lack of any measurable large-scale magnetic field and the existence of a dense expanding neutral atmosphere. Therefore, it is not surprising that, despite their obvious different physical nature and different characteristic scales, their interaction with the solar wind exhibits many similarities. The most important are the formation of a magnetic barrier in front of the highly conducting ionosphere and an induced magnetic tail, often described by models, e.g., in the frame of gas-dynamics, MHD or kinetic hybrid simulations. The observations at comets first have also revealed the existence of an unexpected sharp plasma boundary, the Magnetic Pileup Boundary (MPB), representing the outer edge of the magnetic barrier on the dayside. It has been identified by very well defined signatures both on particles and fields that have been also reported around Mars, leading to using the same terminology for the Martian boundary. Data analysis also helped to reveal identical local boundary properties, e.g., a clear change of the 3D magnetic field topology; this feature has also been recently revealed at Venus, although the MPB itself had never been reported previously at this planet. This talk will review the particle, magnetic field and wave characteristics at the MPB as derived from the observations at comets, Mars and Venus, discuss its physical nature, and show that this is another characteristic feature of the interaction of the solar wind with all these solar system objects.
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