U. Motschmann

Publication List Details

Period

1991 - 2020

Number

90

Co-Authors

On the protection of extrasolar Earth-like planets around K/M stars against galactic cosmic rays (2009)

Stadelmann, A., Grenfell, J. L., Lammer, H., Motschmann, U.

Previous studies have shown that extrasolar Earth-like planets in close-in habitable zones around M-stars are weakly protected against galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), leading to a strongly increased...

ROMAP: Rosetta Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor (2007)

Auster, H. U., Apathy, I., Berghofer, G., Remizov, A., Roll, R., Fornacon, K. H., ...

The scientific objectives, design and capabilities of the Rosetta Lander’s ROMAP instrument are presented. ROMAP’s main scientific goals are longterm magnetic field and plasma measurements of the...

ROMAP: Rosetta Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor (2007)

Auster, H.U., Apathy, I., Berghofer, G., Remizov, A., Roll, R., Fornacon, K.H., ...

The scientific objectives, design and capabilities of the Rosetta Lander's ROMAP instrument are presented. ROMAP's main scientific goals are longterm magnetic field and plama measurements of the...

Comparison of plasma data from ASPERA-3/Mars-Express with a 3-D hybrid simulation (2007)

Bößwetter, A., Simon, S., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Fränz, M., Roussos, E., ...

The ELS and IMA sensors of the ASPERA-3 experiment onboard of Mars-Express (MEX) can measure electron as well as ion moments. We compare these measurements for a specific orbit with the simulation...

Aspects of solar wind interaction with Mars: comparison of fluid and hybrid simulations (2007)

Erkaev, N. V., Bößwetter, A., Motschmann, U., Biernat, H. K.

Mars has no global intrinsic magnetic field, and consequently the solar wind plasma interacts directly with the planetary ionosphere. The main factors of this interaction are: thermalization of...

Three-dimensional multispecies hybrid simulation of Titan's highly variable plasma environment (2007)

Simon, S., Boesswetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Schuele, J.

The interaction between Titan's ionosphere and the Saturnian magnetospheric plasma flow has been studied by means of a three-dimensional (3-D) hybrid simulation code. In the hybrid model, the...

Physics of the Ion Composition Boundary: a comparative 3-D hybrid simulation study of Mars and Titan (2007)

Simon, S., Boesswetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

The plasma environments of Mars and Titan have been studied by means of a 3-D hybrid simulation code, treating the electrons as a massless, charge-neutralizing fluid, whereas ion dynamics are covered...

Comparison of plasma data from ASPERA-3/Mars-Express with a 3-D hybrid simulation (2007)

Bößwetter, A., Simon, S., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Fränz, M., Roussos, E., ...

The ELS and IMA sensors of the ASPERA-3 experiment onboard of Mars-Express (MEX) can measure electron as well as ion moments. We compare these measurements for a specific orbit with the simulation...

Aspects of solar wind interaction with Mars: comparison of fluid and hybrid simulations (2007)

Erkaev, N. V., Bößwetter, A., Motschmann, U., Biernat, H. K.

Mars has no global intrinsic magnetic field, and consequently the solar wind plasma interacts directly with the planetary ionosphere. The main factors of this interaction are: thermalization of...

Three-dimensional multispecies hybrid simulation of Titan's highly variable plasma environment (2007)

Simon, S., Boesswetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Schuele, J.

The interaction between Titan's ionosphere and the Saturnian magnetospheric plasma flow has been studied by means of a three-dimensional (3-D) hybrid simulation code. In the hybrid model, the...

Physics of the Ion Composition Boundary: a comparative 3-D hybrid simulation study of Mars and Titan (2007)

Simon, S., Boesswetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

The plasma environments of Mars and Titan have been studied by means of a 3-D hybrid simulation code, treating the electrons as a massless, charge-neutralizing fluid, whereas ion dynamics are covered...

Plasma Environment of Titan: a 3D Hybrid Simulation Study (2006)

Simon, S., Bößwetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Glassmeier, K.H.

Titan possesses a dense atmosphere, consisting mainly of molecular nitrogen. Titan's orbit is located within the Saturnian magnetosphere most of the time, where the corotating plasma flow is...

Plasma environment of Titan: a 3-D hybrid simulation study (2006)

Simon, S., Bößwetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

Titan possesses a dense atmosphere, consisting mainly of molecular nitrogen. Titan's orbit is located within the Saturnian magnetosphere most of the time, where the corotating plasma flow is...

Plasma environment of magnetized asteroids: a 3-D hybrid simulation study (2006)

Simon, S., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

The interaction of a magnetized asteroid with the solar wind is studied by using a three-dimensional hybrid simulation code (fluid electrons, kinetic ions). When the obstacle's intrinsic magnetic...

Plasma environment of Titan: a 3-D hybrid simulation study (2006)

Simon, S., Bößwetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

Titan possesses a dense atmosphere, consisting mainly of molecular nitrogen. Titan's orbit is located within the Saturnian magnetosphere most of the time, where the corotating plasma flow is...

Plasma environment of magnetized asteroids: a 3-D hybrid simulation study (2006)

Simon, S., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

The interaction of a magnetized asteroid with the solar wind is studied by using a three-dimensional hybrid simulation code (fluid electrons, kinetic ions). When the obstacle's intrinsic magnetic...

Pre-Cometary Ice Composition from Hot Core Chemistry (2005)

Tornow, C., Kührt, E., Motschmann, U.

Pre-cometary ice located around star-forming regions contains molecules that are pre-biotic compounds or pre-biotic precursors. Molecular line surveys of hot cores provide information on the...

Plasma environment of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 3D hybrid code simulations (2004)

Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Kührt, E.

Recent measurements indicate the H2O production rate of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko to be of the same order as for comet Wirtanen. From a plasma physical point of view, this classifies both comets as...

Alfvén waves in the foreshock propagating upstream in the plasma rest frame: statistics from Cluster observations (2004)

Narita, Y., Schäfer, S., Motschmann, U., Fränz, M., Dandouras, I., ...

We statistically study various properties of low-frequency waves such as frequencies, wave numbers, phase velocities, and polarization in the plasma rest frame in the terrestrial foreshock. Using...

Plasma boundaries at Mars: a 3-D simulation study (2004)

Bößwetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Sauer, K.

The interaction of the solar wind with the ionosphere of planet Mars is studied using a three-dimensional hybrid model. Mars has only a weak intrinsic magnetic field, and consequently its ionosphere...

Plasma boundaries at Mars: a 3-D simulation study (2004)

Bößwetter, A., Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U., Sauer, K.

The interaction of the solar wind with the ionosphere of planet Mars is studied using a three-dimensional hybrid model. Mars has only a weak intrinsic magnetic field, and consequently its ionosphere...

Alfvén waves in the foreshock propagating upstream in the plasma rest frame: statistics from Cluster observations (2004)

Narita, Y., Schäfer, S., Motschmann, U., Fränz, M., Dandouras, I., ...

We statistically study various properties of low-frequency waves such as frequencies, wave numbers, phase velocities, and polarization in the plasma rest frame in the terrestrial foreshock. Using...

Alfvén waves in the foreshock propagating upstream in the plasma rest frame: statistics from Cluster observations (2004)

Narita, Y., Schäfer, S., Motschmann, U., Fränz, M., Dandouras, I., ...

We statistically study various properties of low-frequency waves such as frequencies, wave numbers, phase velocities, and polarization in the plasma rest frame in the terrestrial foreshock. Using...

Dispersion analysis of ULF waves in the foreshock using cluster data and the wave telescope technique (2003)

Narita, Y., Schäfer, S., Motschmann, U., Sauer, K., Dandouras, I., ...

Cluster provides us with a unique possibility to study ULF waves. We analyze ULF wave activity in the near-Earth upstream solar wind. Using Cluster as a wave telescope we investigate in detail wave...

Numerical parameter studies of ion-thruster-beam neutralization (2003)

Othmer, C., Motschmann, U., Richter, I.

Ion-thruster-beam neutralization is an essential process of the operation of ion engines. By means of a three-dimensional eletromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation, we carry out parameter studies of...

Calibration of flux-gate magnetometers using relative motion (2002)

Auster, H.U., Fornacon, K.H., Georgescu, E., Glassmeier, K.H., Motschmann, U.

A simple analytical mmodel for the calibration of a flux-gate magnetometer using relative sensor motion in a constant magnitude magnetic field (B) is presented. Sensor motion is parametrized in terms...

3D hybrid simulation code using curvilinear coordinates (2002)

Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

A new simulation code using the hybrid approximation for modeling extraterrestial plasma processes is described, which can be used in arbitrary three-dimensional, ordered, hexahedral grid. Maxwell's...

From a weak to a strong comet - 3D global hybrid simulation studies (2002)

Bagdonat, T., Motschmann, U.

Plasma structures resluting from the solar wind interaction with weak comets are discussed. Numerical simulations using a newly developed hybrid code are presented. The simulations are primarily...

Creation of Spatial Charge Separation in Plasmas with Rigorously Charge-Conserving Local Electromagnetic Field Solvers (2002)

Othmer, C., Motschmann, U., Glassmeier, K.H.

Charge-conserving local field solvers are widely used in today's electromagnetic plasma simulations. As in such codes the charge does not appear explicitly, the injection of new particles into the...

3D hybrid simulations of the interaction of the solar wind with a weak comet (2002)

Lipatov, A. S., Motschmann, U., Bagdonat, T.

The interaction of the solar wind with weak comets, leading to the formation of the cometary magnetosphere with different types of structures in the solar wind and heavy ion plasmas, is simulated...

Cluster as a wave telescope ? first results from the fluxgate magnetometer (2001)

Motschmann, U., Dunlop, M., Balogh, A., Acuña, M. H., Carr, C., ...

The four Cluster spacecraft provide an excellent opportunity to study spatial structures in the magnetosphere and adjacent regions. Propagating waves are amongst the interesting structures and for...

Cluster as a wave telescope ? first results from the fluxgate magnetometer (2001)

Motschmann, U., Dunlop, M., Balogh, A., Acuña, M. H., Carr, C., ...

The four Cluster spacecraft provide an excellent opportunity to study spatial structures in the magnetosphere and adjacent regions. Propagating waves are amongst the interesting structures and for...

On the dispersion of two coexisting nongyrotropic ion species (1999)

Brinca, A. L., Motschmann, U., Romeiras, F. J.

Space observations in the solar wind and simulations of high Mach number bow-shocks have detected particle populations with two coexisting nongyrotropic ion species. We investigate the influence of...

A mode filter for plasma waves in the Hall-MHD approximation (1999)

Vocks, C., Motschmann, U.

A filter method is presented which allows a qualitative and quantitative identification of wave modes observed with plasma experiments on satellites. Hitherto existing mode filters are based on the...

Nongyrotropic particle distributions in space plasmas (1999)

Motschmann, U., Glassmeier, K. H., Brinca, A. L.

In nonstationary, strong inhomogeneous or open plasmas particle orbits are rather complicated. If the nonstationary time scale is smaller than the gyration period, if the inhomogeneity scale is...

Concerning the generation of geomagnetic giant pulsations by drift-bounce resonance ring current instabilities (1999)

Buchert, S., Motschmann, U., Korth, A., Pedersen, A.

Giant pulsations are nearly monochromatic ULF-pulsations of the Earth's magnetic field with periods of about 100 s and amplitudes of up to 40 nT. For one such event ground-magnetic observations as...

On the dispersion of two coexisting nongyrotropic ion species (1999)

Brinca, A. L., Motschmann, U., Romeiras, F. J.

Space observations in the solar wind and simulations of high Mach number bow-shocks have detected particle populations with two coexisting nongyrotropic ion species. We investigate the influence of...

A mode filter for plasma waves in the Hall-MHD approximation (1999)

Vocks, C., Motschmann, U.

A filter method is presented which allows a qualitative and quantitative identification of wave modes observed with plasma experiments on satellites. Hitherto existing mode filters are based on the...

Nongyrotropic particle distributions in space plasmas (1999)

Motschmann, U., Glassmeier, K. H., Brinca, A. L.

In nonstationary, strong inhomogeneous or open plasmas particle orbits are rather complicated. If the nonstationary time scale is smaller than the gyration period, if the inhomogeneity scale is...

Concerning the generation of geomagnetic giant pulsations by drift-bounce resonance ring current instabilities (1999)

Buchert, S., Motschmann, U., Korth, A., Pedersen, A.

Giant pulsations are nearly monochromatic ULF-pulsations of the Earth's magnetic field with periods of about 100 s and amplitudes of up to 40 nT. For one such event ground-magnetic observations as...

Relation of magnetic field line reconnection and unstable nongyrotropic particle distributions (1998)

Motschmann, U.

At plasma boundaries particle orbits are rather complicated. In particular this is true for a shared magnetic field configuration, that is at reconnection boundaries. In a modified way we rederive...

Nongyrotropy in magnetoplasmas: simulation of wave excitation and phase space diffusion (1997)

Motschmann, U., Kafemann, H.(1), Scholer, M.(2)

Nongyrotropic (gyrophase bunched) ion distributions in a magnetoplasma are studied by analytical methods and by 2-dimensional hybrid code simulations. Nongyrotropy may not occur in a plasma being...

Nongyrotropy in magnetoplasmas: simulation of wave excitation and phase-space diffusion (1997)

Motschmann, U., Kafemann, H., Scholer, M.

Nongyrotropic (gyrophase bunched) ion distributions in a magnetoplasma are studied by analytical methods and by two-dimensional hybrid code simulations. Nongyrotropy may not occur in a plasma being...

Nongyrotropy in magnetoplasmas: simulation of wave excitation and phase-space diffusion (1997)

Motschmann, U., Kafemann, H., Scholer, M.

Nongyrotropic (gyrophase bunched) ion distributions in a magnetoplasma are studied by analytical methods and by two-dimensional hybrid code simulations. Nongyrotropy may not occur in a plasma being...

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