Atmospheric loss from the dayside open polar region and its dependence on geomagnetic activity: implications for atmospheric escape on evolutionary timescales

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We have investigated the total O+ escape rate from the dayside open polar region and its dependence on geomagnetic activity, specifically Kp. Two different escape routes of magnetospheric plasma into the solar wind, the plasma mantle, and the high-latitude dayside magnetosheath have been investigated separately. The flux of O+ in the plasma mantle is sufficiently fast to subsequently escape further down the magnetotail passing the neutral point, and it is nearly 3 times larger than that in the dayside magnetosheath. The contribution from the plasma mantle route is estimated as ∼ 3. 9 × 1024exp(0. 45 Kp) [s−1] with a 1 to 2 order of magnitude range for a given geomagnetic activity condition. The extrapolation of this result, including escape via the dayside magnetosheath, indicates an average O+ escape of 3 × 1026 s−1 for the most extreme geomagnetic storms. Assuming that the range is mainly caused by the solar EUV level, which was also larger in the past, the average O+ escape could have reached 1027–28 s−1 a few billion years ago. Integration over time suggests a total oxygen escape from ancient times until the present roughly equal to the atmospheric oxygen content today.

Schillings, AudreyLuleå tekniska universitet,Rymdteknik,Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden(Swepub:ltu)audsch (author)
Nilsson, HansLuleå tekniska universitet,Rymdteknik,Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden(Swepub:ltu)hannil (author)
Yamauchi, MasatoshiSwedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden (author)
Westerberg, Lars-GöranLuleå tekniska universitet,Strömningslära och experimentell mekanik(Swepub:ltu)lgwe (author)
Dandouras, IannisCNRS, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France; University of Toulouse, UPS-OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France (author)
Luleå tekniska universitetRymdteknik (creator_code:org_t)

In:Annales Geophysicae: Copernicus Publications35:3, s. 721-7310992-76891432-0576

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