Solar wind interaction with planets and minor planetary bodies

太阳风与行星和小行星体的相互作用

• 批准号: 2740619
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2740619
• 关键词: Solar; wind; interaction; planets; minor

The Heliospheric Imagers carried by the NASA STEREO mission have revolutionised our view of the solar wind in interplanetary space. These wide-field cameras reveal the presence of solar wind streams and solar mass ejections as the move outwards from the Sun. While this mission was designed to study the impact of such 'space weather' at Earth, the wide fields of view of the HI cameras often contain planets, comets and many minor planets. With the advent of the lightweight solar wind model, HUXt, together with advanced data assimilation techniques, it is now possible to conveniently model the solar wind throughout the inner solar system and thus study the interaction of the solar wind with this wider selection of planetary bodies. In this project, the student will consider such interactions in detail to identify signatures of space weather effects at these other planetary bodies.

NASA立体声任务携带的地球成像仪已彻底改变了我们对星际空间中太阳风的看法。这些宽视野摄像机揭示了太阳风流和太阳质量弹出的存在，因为从太阳向外移动。尽管该任务旨在研究这种“太空天气”对地球的影响，但HI相机的广阔视野通常包含行星，彗星和许多次要行星。随着轻型太阳能风模型的出现，Huxt以及先进的数据同化技术，现在可以方便地在整个太阳能系统中方便地对太阳风进行建模，从而研究太阳风与这种更广泛的行星体选择的相互作用。在该项目中，学生将详细考虑这种相互作用，以确定这些其他行星机构的太空天气影响的特征。