A new computational model for the prediction of mass loading phenomena for solar wind interactions with cometary and planetary ionospheres

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN STAHARA ◽  
GREGORY MOLVIK ◽  
JOHN SPREITER
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Mass Loading ◽  
Planetary Ionospheres ◽  
Solar Wind Interactions

Solar-wind interactions: Nature and composition of lunar atmosphere

The Moon ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nalin R. Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Solar Wind Interactions

scholarly journals Planetary ionospheres – sources and dynamic drivers

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (S257) ◽  
pp. 499-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Grebowsky ◽  
Arthur C. Aikin
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Solar Wind ◽  
Magnetic Fields ◽  
Lower Atmosphere ◽  
Dust Particles ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Interplanetary Dust Particles ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere ◽  
Energy Inputs ◽  
Planetary Ionospheres

AbstractExternal energy inputs into all planetary upper atmospheres (including more than a half dozen moons with atmospheres) are comprised of combinations of solar EUV, soft x-rays, solar energetic particles, solar wind charged particles, magnetospherically accelerated particles, solar wind electric field, interplanetary dust particles as well as propagating lower atmosphere disturbances. Each input has analogous physical interactions with all planetary ionospheres and upper atmospheres, but the integrated consequences of the multiple energy inputs vary from planet to planet. The Earth forms the framework for most fundamental processes because of extensive measurements of the effects of each of the inputs. However the conditions at Earth are far different from those at the carbon dioxide atmosphere of magnetic field-free, slow-rotating Venus, the carbon dioxide atmosphere of Mars with patchy remnant magnetic fields, while the outer planets have hydrogen atmospheres, are fast rotating with intrinsic magnetic fields, and encompass moons that interact with the magnetospheres and have exotic atmospheres. Although the physical processes are known, our understanding of our solar system's ionospheres diminishes with increasing distance from the Sun.

Evidence of an ion composition boundary (protonopause) in bi-ion fluid simulations of solar wind mass loading

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 2255-2258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konard Sauer ◽  
Alexander Bogdanov ◽  
Klaus Baumgärtel
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Mass Loading ◽  
Ion Composition

Deceleration of the solar wind upstream of the martian bow shock. Mass-loading or foreshock features?

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1627-1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Dubinin ◽  
K. Sauer ◽  
M. Delva ◽  
S. Livi ◽  
R. Lundin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Bow Shock ◽  
Mass Loading

scholarly journals Mass loading of the solar wind by a sungrazing comet

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (15) ◽  
pp. 5376-5381 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Rasca ◽  
R. Oran ◽  
M. Horányi
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Mass Loading
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