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CHAI Lihui, GUO Mengdan, TANG Xiaozhun. Large-scale Plasma Vortex in the Magnetotail of Venus (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2024, 44(3): 500-510 doi: 10.11728/cjss2024.03.2023-0057
Citation: CHAI Lihui, GUO Mengdan, TANG Xiaozhun. Large-scale Plasma Vortex in the Magnetotail of Venus (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Space Science, 2024, 44(3): 500-510 doi: 10.11728/cjss2024.03.2023-0057
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Large-scale Plasma Vortex in the Magnetotail of Venus

doi: 10.11728/cjss2024.03.2023-0057 cstr: 32142.14.cjss2024.03.2023-0057
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    Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029

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    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049

  • Received Date: 2023-05-27
  • Rev Recd Date: 2023-10-04
    • Available Online: 2023-12-04
    Abstract
  • Using the observations by the Analyzer of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms on Venus (ASPERA-4) onboard Venus Express, Previous studies found A large-scale plasma vortices of solar wind hydrogen ions (H+) and Venus ionospheric oxygen ions (O+) in the magnetotail of Venus. The vortex is counterclockwise when viewed from the tail towards the planet. We conducted a statistical analysis of the ASPERA-4 moment data calibrated by Fedorov to investigate the plasma characteristics in Venusian magnetotail. The statistical results showed that there are large-scale vortices of the solar wind H+ and Venus ionospheric O+ in both the Venus-Solar-Orbital (VSO) and Venus-Solar-Electrical (VSE) coordinate systems, but there are clockwise. Considering that neither counterclockwise nor clockwise plasma vortices can generate a magnetic field consistent with the observed magnetic structure in the Venusian magnetotail, and no complete plasma vortex is observed in the Mars magnetotail with a magnetic structure similar to that of Venusian magnetotail, concluded that there may not be large-scale plasma vortices in the Venusian magnetotail, and that more satellite observations are needed in the future to investigate the plasma characteristics on Venus.

     

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