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The lower ionosphere of Venus |
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| Authors: | J Dubach RC Whitten JS Sims |
| Institution: | Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, U.S.A.;Space Science Division, NASA-Ames Research Centre, Moffet Field, California 94305, U.S.A;Department of Chemistry Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, U.S.A. |
| Abstract: | Galactic cosmic ray bombardment provides a permanent background ionosphere in planetary atmospheres. A transport technique is used to compute the cosmic ray ionization rate profile in a model of the Venusian atmosphere at altitudes between 55 and 100 km. These ionization rates are then applied to a model of ion chemistry to predict equilibrium electron and ion density profiles. Ionization rates for typical solar flare proton events are available from earlier calculations and have been included. |
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