Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsa13a1877j&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SA13A-1877
Physics
[2423] Ionosphere / Ionization Processes, [2455] Ionosphere / Particle Precipitation, [2459] Ionosphere / Planetary Ionospheres, [5435] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Ionospheres
Scientific paper
Precipitation of high-energy charged particles into planetary atmospheres is an important source of energy input, causing ionization, excitation, dissociation, neutral heating and altering neutral chemistry and photochemistry. We have developed a Monte Carlo program that can track energetic ion trajectories and collisions in the Martian atmosphere. Important considerations for this model framework include three-dimensional electric and magnetic fields, neutral density profile, cross sections and angular phase functions of several ion-neutral and neutral-neutral interaction processes. We will present preliminary results from this model, including three-dimensional profiles of rates of common processes such as charge exchange, impact ionization, electron stripping, etc. Ultimately this will form part of a comprehensive model of solar wind interactions with Mars and long-term Martian atmospheric erosion for comparison with MAVEN results.
Brain Dave
Jolitz R.
Lillis Robert J.
Lin Robert P.
Parkinson Christopher D.
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