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2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Impact-induced lightning: A new perspective on the paleoenvironment of planets

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 17K18812
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Earth and planetary science and related fields
Research InstitutionChiba Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Kurosawa Kosuke  千葉工業大学, 惑星探査研究センター, 上席研究員 (80616433)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 奥住 聡  東京工業大学, 理学院, 准教授 (60704533)
村主 崇行  国立研究開発法人理化学研究所, 計算科学研究機構, 特別研究員 (50599149)
Project Period (FY) 2017-06-30 – 2020-03-31
Keywords天体衝突 / 衝突雷 / 火山雷 / 放電 / 電荷分離 / 地質試料 / 室内衝突実験 / N体数値計算
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Impact-generated ejecta curtains produced by hypervelocity impacts onto planets are investigated using experimental, analytical and numerical methods. It is found that no large-scale discharge structures are generated in typical spatial and time scales of laboratory impact experiments. The analytic and numerical models were developed to analysis the mutual collisions between the constituent micro particles of ejecta curtains. We have reproduced the mesh-like patterns of ejecta curtains observed in the laboratory experiments. In the future, we will investigate the possibility whether lightning discharges occur in ejecta curtain.

Free Research Field

惑星科学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

大気を持たない太陽系の固体惑星, 衛星の表面を支配する地形は衝突クレータである. それらの形成時には必然的に放出物カーテンが発生していたであろう.放出物カーテンの発生, 成長, 堆積は1つの地質過程として認識されている. 今回の萌芽研究によって, 天体衝突で発生する放出物カーテンの様々な特性が明らかとなったことによって, 地質過程の新たな理解が得られた.

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Published: 2021-02-19  

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