Hot Carbon Densities and Escape Fluxes at Mars

Authors

Andrew F. Nagy
Michael W. LiemohnFollow
Jane L. Fox, Wright State University - Main CampusFollow
J. KimFollow

Document Type

Presentation

Publication Date

12-2000

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Abstract

The hot carbon escape fluxes and exospheric number densities were calculated for high and low solar activity conditions at Mars. The hot carbon production sources that were considered in the calculations are i) dissociative recombination of CO2+, ii) photodissociation of CO2 and iii) collisions with hot oxygen. We used our two stream code to calculate the escape flux at the exobase and Liouville's theorem to calculate the exospheric densities.

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Presented at the 2000 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, CA.

Presentation Number SA52A-15.

Repository Citation

Nagy, A. F., Liemohn, M. W., Fox, J. L., & Kim, J. (2000). Hot Carbon Densities and Escape Fluxes at Mars. Eos, 81 (48 - Fall Meeting Supplement).
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/physics/536