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Two-stream plasma instability as a potential mechanism for particle escape from the Venusian ionosphere

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In this work, we investigate the possibility of two-stream instability in the Venusian atmosphere leading to momentum transfer, then to the subsequent escape of hydrogen and oxygen ions from the ionosphere. We employ the hydrodynamic model and obtain the linear dispersion relation from which the two-stream instability is studied. Further, the interaction of solar wind with the ions of Venus ionosphere from which the instability sets in, has been studied using the data from ASPERA-4 of Venus express. The data support the fact that the two-stream instability can provide sufficient energy to accelerate ions to escape velocity of the planet and thus leave the Venusian ionosphere.

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Acknowledgements

This work based on the data of the Venus Solar Wind Interactions, administered by Brecht, S. H.; Ledvina, S. A., with the identifier urn:nasa:pds:venus-solar-wind-interactions::1.0 which is archived at The NASA Planetary Data System (PDS), doi.org/10.17189/1520598. This work makes use of data which are licensed under the terms of CC Attribution 4.0. These data were retrieved from PDS-PPI IGPP UCLA [46, 47] provided by European Space Agency (ESA). The authors also acknowledge the support received from the Institute of Natural Sciences and Applied Technology, Kolkata. The authors thank the reviewers whose comments and suggestions have helped to improve this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Physics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, Bolpur, 731 235, India

    S Dey & D Maity

  2. Department of Physics, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata, 700 103, India

    S Ghosh

  3. Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600 036, India

    A De

  4. Department of Physics, Government General Degree College at Kushmandi, Dakshin Dinajpur, 733 121, India

    S Chandra

  5. Institute of Natural Sciences and Applied Technology, Kolkata, 700 032, India

    S Chandra

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Dey, S., Ghosh, S., Maity, D. et al. Two-stream plasma instability as a potential mechanism for particle escape from the Venusian ionosphere. Pramana - J Phys 96, 213 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-022-02462-4

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