Solar Wind Interaction With Non-Magnetic Planets

研究人员将研究太阳风与非磁性太阳系天体的相互作用，如金星，火星，泰坦和各种彗星。这一领域的研究有助于对在固有非磁性物体上形成的行星电离层和感应磁层有广泛的比较了解。 主要的努力是这种相互作用的理论建模，使用几种互补的技术。研究的主要重点将是等离子体和中性气体之间的碰撞相互作用以及等离子体分布函数在感应磁层中的演化。

The investigators will examine solar wind interactions with non-magnetic solar system bodies such as Venus, Mars, Titan, and various comets. Research in this area contributes to a broad, comparative understanding of planetary ionospheres and induced magnetospheres that form on inherently non-magnetic bodies. The main effort is theoretical modeling of this interaction using several complementary techniques. Primary emphasis of the research will be collisional interactions between plasmas and neutral gases and the evolution of plasma distribution functions in induced magnetospheres.