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Journal Article
Pioneer Venus Orbiter Observations of Solar Wind Driven Magnetosonic Waves Interacting With the Dayside Venusian Ionosphere
2024
Overview
We use in situ plasma observations made by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraft to show for the first time that magnetosonic waves can couple the solar wind to the upper ionosphere and deposit energy there. The waves are generated upstream of Venus, are advected into the shock and propagate across the draped magnetic field, through the magnetosheath and into the dayside upper ionosphere. The magnetosonic waves damp in the upper ionosphere in a region where physical collisions are rare, and electromagnetic forces must control this damping. The waves damp when the ionospheric heavy ion density is a few thousand cm−3 and wave‐particle interactions with the dominant O+ ions are postulated as the damping mechanism. Estimates of ion heating rates show that 1%–5% of the O+ ion distribution function could be heated to escape energy in 10–40 s. Plain Language Summary Our Sun emits a stream of charged particles radially outward into our Solar system, known as the solar wind. When the solar wind encounters obstacles such as planets and comets, a variety of forces may act to divert the flow around the obstacle, much like when flowing water in a stream encounters a rock and is diverted around it. This study uses measurements made by a spacecraft that orbited Venus, known as Pioneer Venus Orbiter, to investigate some of the side effects that can arise when the solar wind flow is diverted around Venus. We show for the first time how a particular pathway allows energy to be deposited from the flowing solar wind into the Venusian atmosphere, and that this energy can be deposited quickly enough to significantly impact the particles in the atmosphere. The characteristics observed in this study at Venus are similar to those at Mars where this process has also been observed, suggesting that the solar wind can interact with the two planets in similar ways in this respect. Key Points Magnetosonic waves propagate from upstream into the dayside upper ionosphere of Venus Magnetosonic waves are damped by wave‐particle interactions with heavy ionospheric ions Subsequent ion heating rates could heat 1%–5% of the ion distribution function to escape energy in 10–40 s
