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Data and code from: Inferring lunar wake potentials from electron phase space densities
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Data and code from: Inferring lunar wake potentials from electron phase space densities

Xin An, Shaosui Xu, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Terry Z. Liu, Andrew Poppe, Jasper Halekas and Ferdinand Plaschke
Dryad
04/20/2026
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0p2ngf2gk
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https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0p2ngf2gkView
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Abstract

Inferring electric potentials from electron phase space density measurements in the lunar wake is complicated by the asymmetry between the two sides of the wake driven by the solar wind strahl and the presence of ion acoustic shocks in the central wake. We develop the Hamiltonian inversion method, which addresses both challenges through a domain-decomposition strategy based on the quasi-static Vlasov equilibrium, validate it against particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation data, and apply it to ARTEMIS spacecraft observations at two evolutionary stages of the lunar wake.
FOS: Physical sciences Lunar exploration Planetary sciences Space plasmas

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