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14Complex Systems of Charged Particles and their Interactions with Electromagnetic Radiation 2019
CONDENSATION PROCESSES AND DUSTY PLASMA FORMATION IN
MARTIAN IONOSPHERE
Yu.S. Reznichenko12, A.Yu. Dubinskii1,S.I. Popel123
1Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia,
e-mail: nfkpb@bk.ru
2Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region,
Russia, e-mail: dvju@yandex.ru 3National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia,
e-mail:popel@iki.rssi.ru
A self-consistent model for the formation and evolution of dusty plasmas in the Martian ionosphere is developed. The effects of the initial distributions of dust particles, as well as condensation and absorption of carbon dioxide and water molecules by dust particles, are studied. Theory values of characteristic sizes of dust grains and their charges are obtained. The theoretical values of the sizes are in agreement with the data of observations. The possibility of the formation of dusty plasma structures in the Martian ionosphere which are analogous to noctilucent clouds in the Earth's atmosphere is discussed.
This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 18-0200341) and by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (program no.28 "Space: Research of fundamental processes and their interrelations").
