Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufm.p51b1195j&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #P51B-1195
Physics
2780 Solar Wind Interactions With Unmagnetized Bodies, 6295 Venus
Scientific paper
This is a status report of a numerical simulation project to study the plasma interaction between Venus and the solar wind using a quasineutral hybrid model. The 3-dimensional model consists of particle ions, a charge neutralizing massless electron fluid and non-radiative electrodynamics. This arrangement makes it possible to study self-consistently coupled ion kinetics and electromagnetism in a global planetary scale. In the model, the Venusian upper atmosphere and exosphere are modelled as a perfectly conducting ionospheric medium and hydrogen and oxygen photoion production. Given the upstream conditions and the spatial planetary ion distributions the model provides, for example, the escape rates of the atmospheric ion populations and the geometry of the interplanetary magnetic field draped around the planet. Here the model is used to study ion observations from the ASPERA-4 plasma instrument and magnetic field measurements from the MAG- magnetometer on Venus Express spacecraft.
Barabash Stas
Fedorov Arkady
Janhunen Pekka
Jarvinen Riku
Kallio Esa
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