Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1782630 | Planetary and Space Science | 2007 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
We present three-dimensional numerical simulations of the interaction between a Hot Jupiter and the stellar wind plasma of its host star in the framework of resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In a first step, we investigate the numerical realization of the plasma flow around the planet and the planetary magnetic field using a simplified model, before we simulate more realistic scenarios on the basis of the stellar wind model by Weber and Davis. A main goal is to understand the magnetic interaction between star and planet. In analogy to the well-known Jupiter Io scenario, we study the development of a magnetic field-aligned current system in different parameter regimes.
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Authors
S. Preusse, A. Kopp, J. Büchner, U. Motschmann,