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On the Response of Martian Ionosphere to the Passage of a Corotating Interaction Region: MAVEN Observations

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Pith's one-line read When a corotating solar-wind stream hit Mars in June 2015, the dayside ionosphere compressed for one orbit but the nightside electron density stayed depleted for five.

desk verdict A solid MAVEN case study of a June 2015 CIR at Mars: the dayside compression is transient, the nightside depletion lasts five orbits, and the heavy-ion precipitation mechanism is correlative rather than proven. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.00815 v1 pith:VEIF5JKG submitted 2019-08-02 physics.space-ph astro-ph.EPphysics.geo-phphysics.plasm-ph

C. Krishnaprasad , Smitha V. Thampi , Anil Bhardwaj This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords MarsionospherecorotatinginteractionregionMAVENnightsideelectrondensitydepletionpickupionssolarwinddynamicpressuregyroradius
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The pith

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The reading

The paper tracks what happens to Mars's ionosphere when a corotating interaction region (CIR) — a compressed solar-wind stream that corotates with the Sun — sweeps past the planet, using coordinated MAVEN particle, field, and plasma-wave data from June 2015. It finds an asymmetry: the dayside ionosphere is visibly compressed for only one orbit, around the peak of solar-wind dynamic pressure (~14 nPa), while the nightside topside electron density stays depleted for five consecutive orbits and the nightside electron temperature rises above roughly 12,000 K. The authors argue that the nightside effect is not simply a delayed consequence of dayside compression. Instead, the compressed interplanetary magnetic field shrinks the gyroradius of pickup O+ ions, allowing suprathermal heavy ions to precipitate across the terminator and erode the nightside topside ionosphere. If correct, the result means that CIRs affect Mars's space environment through a mechanism — nightside ion pickup and precipitation — that a dayside-only view of solar-wind forcing would miss.

What carries the argument

The central causal quantity is the gyroradius of O+ pickup ions. In the pre-CIR solar wind (300 km/s, 1.6 nT) it was about 30,100 km; during the compressed CIR flow (450 km/s, 8.7 nT) it shrank to about 8,500 km, comparable to Mars's diameter, which the paper argues lets these ions precipitate into the nightside ionosphere and exosphere, as observed by STATIC. Supporting machinery is the quiet-time mean electron-density profile built from six pre-CIR orbits, against which LPW quantifies the dayside and nightside deviations, together with LPW electron-temperature profiles that track where the extra energy is deposited.

What would settle it

Replace the six pre-CIR quiet-time orbits with a control baseline drawn from the same local times and longitudes one Martian year later, or from a data-driven model of the undisturbed ionosphere, and recompute the LPW density profiles for orbits 1415–1420: if the nightside densities fall within one standard deviation of that control baseline, the claimed CIR-driven depletion would not survive.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

Using MAVEN/LPW electron density and temperature profiles, SWIA/MAG upstream solar wind and IMF data, SEP energetic particle data, and STATIC mass-resolved ion fluxes, the paper establishes that the June 2015 CIR compressed the dayside ionosphere only near the dynamic-pressure peak, lowering the ionopause to about 400 km and increasing lower-altitude density by roughly 200%. In contrast, the nightside topside electron density was depleted for five consecutive orbits (1415–1419) while nightside electron temperatures rose above 12,000 K. The STATIC data show enhanced suprathermal O+ and O2+ fluxes in the exosphere with evidence for tailward pickup-ion flow, and the analysis suggests that the nightside ionosphere is primarily controlled by precipitating solar energetic particles and pickup ions transported across the terminator, depleting significantly when the heavy-ion flux in the exosphere increases. The authors further show that the O+ pickup gyroradius fell from roughly 30,100 km before the CIR to about 8,500 km during it, a factor of about 0.28, making nightside precipitation much more likely.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that the nightside was depleted rests on six pre-CIR orbits defining the quiet-time baseline; if those orbits are not representative of the same solar zenith angle, longitude, season, and solar-cycle conditions as the CIR orbits, the depletion could be a sampling artifact rather than a real CIR effect.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Dayside CIR forcing resembles CME forcing: compression at the pressure peak, a lower ionopause, and enhanced lower-altitude density, so existing ICME-response models may apply to the dayside CIR response.
  • The nightside ionosphere acts as a multi-orbit sensor of CIR passage: five orbits of depleted topside density and elevated electron temperature mean that single-orbit snapshots can miss or misjudge the ionospheric response to solar-wind structures.
  • When a CIR's compressed IMF shrinks pickup-ion gyroradii, heavy-ion precipitation and tailward flow intensify, coupling solar-wind forcing directly to nightside ionospheric structure and to atmospheric escape.
  • The return of density and temperature to quiet-time values by orbits 1420/1421 shows the effects are transient and tied to the high-speed-stream passage rather than to a persistent change in Mars's ionosphere.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An implication the paper leaves implicit: if nightside depletion is driven primarily by the IMF-compression reduction in gyroradius, then CIR events with strong compressed magnetic field but modest dynamic-pressure peaks should still produce multi-orbit nightside depletion; a multi-event MAVEN survey could separate IMF-driven from dynamic-pressure-driven effects.
  • Because the paper compares a six-orbit quiet baseline with five disturbed orbits, a natural next test is to repeat the analysis with a control period from the same Martian season and local-time geometry one Martian year later, which would quantify how much of the reported depletion is CIR-specific rather than climatological.
  • The enhanced nightside electron temperatures imply extra energy deposition; combining these LPW profiles with neutral-composition measurements from the same orbits could test whether the extra energy changes nightside ion chemistry, for example through temperature-dependent recombination rates.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports a multi-instrument MAVEN case study of the Martian ionosphere during the 22 June 2015 corotating interaction region (CIR). Using SWIA/MAG for upstream solar wind and IMF, SEP for energetic particles, LPW for electron density and temperature, and STATIC for ion composition, it finds that the dayside ionosphere was compressed near the dynamic pressure peak (~14 nPa, orbit 1417) and largely recovered on the next orbit, while the nightside topside electron density was depleted for five consecutive orbits (1415-1419), accompanied by enhanced electron temperatures. STATIC shows enhanced suprathermal heavy-ion fluxes above 300 km during the same period, and the authors argue from gyroradius estimates that reduced pickup-ion gyroradii in the compressed CIR fields allow these ions to precipitate into the nightside ionosphere and deplete it. The observational core is straightforward: disturbed profiles are compared with a six-orbit quiet-time mean, and crustal-field confounding is explicitly checked for selected orbits. The causal interpretation, however, rests mainly on temporal coincidence and lacks a quantitative loss/ionization budget.

Significance. If the reported dayside/nightside asymmetry is confirmed, it is a valuable observational constraint: it shows that a CIR at Mars can produce a short-duration dayside compression alongside a multi-orbit nightside depletion, and it identifies a candidate coupling, finite-gyroradius pickup ions in compressed IMF, that is benchmarked externally against Hara et al. (2011). The paper's strengths include the coordinated use of the MAVEN payload, an explicit quiet-time baseline with standard-deviation comparison, explicit consideration of crustal magnetic fields for the relevant orbits, and standard computation of gyroradii from measured parameters. The significance is therefore as a case study that motivates quantitative modeling of nightside transport and precipitation; the mechanism itself is not established by the data as presented.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract; Section 4; Figures 3 and 5-7] The central mechanistic claim, that precipitating solar energetic particles and pickup ions transported across the terminator deplete the nightside topside ionosphere, is supported only by temporal coincidence between the STATIC heavy-ion enhancement and the LPW electron-density depletion. The STATIC observations are omnidirectional and are shown only above 300 km (Section 3), whereas the LPW depletion is reported over 150-500 km; no calculation is given of the downward precipitating flux at ionospheric altitudes, of the impact-ionization and recombination balance at the observed enhanced T_e, or of the sputtering/escape loss rate needed to remove the electron content over five orbits. Without such a budget the causal direction is unconstrained, and the paper's own citation of Morgan et al. (2010), where CIR-related energetic-particle fluxes produce enhanced ionization and radar absorption, highlights the need to explain why the same agent should deplete rather than enhance N_e; a concrete test would be to integrate the measured SEP and STATIC energy fluxes over the nightside column and compare the resulting production rate with the loss implied by the observed density depletion.
  2. [Section 3, Figure 3a, Tables 1-2] The quantitative claim that nightside profiles in orbits 1415-1419 are depleted beyond the quiet-time standard deviation depends on the representativeness of the six pre-CIR orbits 1381-1386. The quiet and disturbed orbits sample systematically different solar zenith angles (approximately 104-105 degrees versus 108 degrees at 500 km on the inbound legs) and different longitudes, and they are separated by five days; because the paper itself notes that the nightside is more variable than the dayside, the comparison needs a control for this sampling mismatch. A concrete test would be to compare the disturbed profiles with a larger quiet-time ensemble binned in SZA and longitude, or to restrict the comparison to overlapping SZA ranges.
  3. [Section 3, Figure 1 and Table 1] The temporal narrative for the depletion onset needs to be specified more carefully: orbit 1415 inbound begins at 11:00 UTC on 22 June, about five hours before the reported peak dynamic pressure at 16:45 UTC, so the paper should document the full upstream time history (including the pre-shock SEP enhancements on 21 June) rather than only the peak value. This matters because the claim that the nightside depletion persists for five orbits while the dayside compression lasts one orbit requires the reader to know when the depletion began relative to the CIR-related drivers.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Table 1 and Figure 3 caption] Table 1 lists quiet orbits 1381, 1382, 1384, 1385, and 1386, while the text and Figure 3 caption state that the quiet-time mean uses orbits 1381-1386; please make the orbit list consistent.
  2. [Section 3, Figure 3 text] There are subject-verb agreement errors such as 'Orbits 1415 to 1419 shows depletion' and 'The ionopause altitude observed for these two orbits are below 380 km'; also, the latter sentence does not identify which two orbits are meant.
  3. [Figure 4 caption and text] The Figure 4 caption reports that nightside T_e increases to about 14000 K during orbit 1416, while the text reports values above 12000 K for orbits 1416 and 1417; these numbers should be unified.
  4. [References] The reference list includes Taylor et al. (1985), but this item does not appear to be cited in the text; in addition, the McFadden et al. (2015) reference contains the typo 'Compostion' in the instrument title.
  5. [Section 3, STATIC paragraph] The statement that STATIC data are shown only above 300 km is important context for the depletion claim, since LPW observations extend down to 150 km; this limitation should also be stated explicitly where the mechanism is discussed in Section 4.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the paper is an observational case study whose conclusions rest on measured data and external comparisons, not on fitted or self-defined quantities.

full rationale

The paper contains no derivation step that reduces to its own inputs. The quiet-time baseline is an average of six pre-CIR orbits (1381–1386) used only for visual comparison, and the depleted orbits (1415–1419) are distinct data points shown to lie outside one standard deviation of that mean; no parameter is fitted to the depletion it later explains. The gyroradius estimate (∼8500 km after CIR versus ∼30100 km before) is computed from independently measured SWIA velocity and MAG field values using the standard pickup-ion formula, and is compared against Hara et al. (2011) as an external benchmark rather than being used to define the result. The mechanistic claim that precipitating heavy ions and pickup ions deplete the nightside ionosphere is a causal interpretation of a temporal/spatial correlation between enhanced STATIC suprathermal heavy-ion flux and reduced LPW electron density, but correlation without a quantitative loss budget is a correctness or evidence-strength concern, not circularity: the conclusion is neither defined in terms of the observations nor derived by algebraic identity from them. Self-citations to Lee et al. (2017), Thampi et al. (2018), and Thampi et al. (2019) provide context, event identification, and a companion SEP study; none is invoked as a uniqueness theorem or as the sole justification for the paper's central claim. No fitted input is relabeled as a prediction, no known result is renamed, and no ansatz is smuggled in through a self-citation. The analysis is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks, and the circularity burden is not met.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No free parameters are fitted; the analysis is observational. The listed assumptions are background premises about data representativeness, instrument calibration, and event attribution that the central claim depends on.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Quiet-time baseline orbits 1381-1386 represent the unperturbed state of the ionosphere during the CIR period.
    Used to define the mean quiet profile and standard deviation against which disturbed profiles (orbits 1415-1420) are compared (Section 2, 'To understand the average quiet time picture...', and Figure 3). If these six orbits are not representative, the reported depletion could be natural variability.
  • domain assumption The calibrated SWIA/MAG upstream moments and IMF are accurate representations of the solar wind at Mars.
    The paper follows Halekas et al. (2016) for computing solar wind parameters; if the calibration is biased, the reported peak dynamic pressure and CIR timing could be wrong.
  • domain assumption STATIC-measured suprathermal heavy ions above 300 km are genuine pickup ions rather than contamination or spacecraft charging artifacts.
    The paper notes STATIC operated at energies above 25 eV and spacecraft potential is about -2 V (Section 3, 'It may be noted...'). The interpretation rests on these ions being real planetary ions.
  • domain assumption The SEPs from the 18 June CME, which arrived at Mars before the CIR shock, did not significantly alter the ionosphere in ways that could mimic or mask the CIR-induced depletion.
    The paper states these SEPs are from a CME that did not hit Mars (Section 3, Figure 2 caption). Attributing the nightside depletion to the CIR requires excluding this pre-event energetic particle influence.

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The response of Martian ionosphere to the passage of Corotating Interaction Region (CIR) of June 2015 is studied using observations from several instruments aboard the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission. An intense CIR arrived at Mars on 22 June 2015, during which the upstream solar wind and interplanetary conditions were monitored by the Solar Wind Ion Analyzer (SWIA), Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA), Magnetometer (MAG), and Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) instruments aboard MAVEN. The CIR event was characterized by enhancements in solar wind density, velocity, and dynamic pressure, and increased & fluctuating interplanetary magnetic field, and was associated with enhanced fluxes of solar energetic particles. The Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) instrument onboard MAVEN provided the ionospheric observations such as electron density and electron temperature during this period. The dayside ionosphere is significantly compressed only near the peak of solar wind dynamic pressure enhancement (~14 nPa). In contrast, on the nightside, the electron density remains depleted for a longer period of time. The electron temperatures are also enhanced during the period of electron depletion on the nightside. The STATIC (Suprathermal and Thermal Ion Composition) measurements show enhanced fluxes of suprathermal heavy ions in the Martian exosphere during CIR period, and evidences for enhanced tailward flow of these pickup ions. The analysis suggests that the nightside ionosphere is primarily controlled by the precipitating solar energetic particles and pickup ions transported across the Martian terminator, and depletes significantly when the heavy ion flux in the exosphere enhances.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. The upstream solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field conditions during June 2015 observed by SWIA: (a) solar wind density, (b) solar wind dynamic pressure, (c) solar wind velocity, and MAG: (d) IMF (|B|, Bx, By, and Bz). The color bar shows the orbits during the period. The periapsis of orbit 1416 inbound/1417 outbound is marked with red dashed line on the graph. –6– [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. (a) SWIA energy-time spectrogram of ion energy flux during 16 to 24 June 2015. (b) SWEA energy-time spectrogram of electron energy flux during 16 to 24 June 2015. (c) Differential energy flux of SEP 1F ions during 16 to 24 June 2015. (d) Differential energy flux of SEP 1F electrons during 16 to 24 June 2015. The periapsis of orbit 1416 inbound/1417 outbound is marked with red dashed line on each spectrum. The initia… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. (a) The nightside electron density profiles during June 2015 observed by LPW. The orbits 1415, 1416, 1417, 1418, & 1419 are disturbed period orbits. Orbit 1384 is one of the pre-CIR quiet orbit and orbit 1420 is post-CIR quiet orbit. The black thick solid line with errorbar represents the mean quiet time profile and standard deviation of quiet orbits 1381, 1382, 1383, 1384, 1385, & 1386. (b) The dayside electron den… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) The nightside electron temperature profiles with SZA during 16 to 24 June 2015 observed by LPW (Orbits 1381 to 1428 – from left to right). The nightside electron temperature is enhanced to more than 12000 K during inbound orbits 1416 and 1417. (b) The dayside elect…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: STATIC energy-time spectrogram of omnidirectional ion energy flux (C0 mode) during (a) orbit 1384/1385, and (d) orbit 1415/1416, STATIC mass-time spectrogram of omnidirectional ion energy flux (C6 mode) during (b) orbit 1384/1385, and (e) orbit 1415/1416 (c, f) altitud…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: STATIC energy-time spectrogram of omnidirectional ion energy flux (C0 mode) during (a) orbit 1416/1417, and (d) orbit 1417/1418, STATIC mass-time spectrogram of omnidirectional ion energy flux (C6 mode) during (b) orbit 1416/1417, and (e) orbit 1417/1418 (c, f) altitud…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: STATIC energy-time spectrogram of omnidirectional ion energy flux (C0 mode) during (a) orbit 1418/1419, and (d) orbit 1419/1420, STATIC mass-time spectrogram of omnidirectional ion energy flux (C6 mode) during (b) orbit 1418/1419, and (e) orbit 1419/1420 (c, f) altitud…

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