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Magnetic Exoplanets in the Subalvenic Stellar Wind: Collimators of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field 亚金星恒星风中的磁性系外行星：行星际磁场的准直器

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624601737

E. S. Belenkaya

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Accumulation and Recombination of Radicals as an Energy Source for Active Processes in Icy Bodies of the Solar System 自由基的积累和重组是太阳系冰体活跃过程的能量来源

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624601981

A. K. Pavlov, G. A. Kucherov, A. Y. Merkulova, D. V. Belousov

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Influence of the Dielectric Permittivity of the Surface Layer on Charging of Airless Cosmic Bodies 表层介电常数对无空气宇宙体带电的影响

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624601944

N. D. Borisov

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Asteroid 4 Vesta: from Ground Observations to the Dawn Mission–Evolution of Concepts of Mineralogical Composition and Surface Structure 灶神星：从地面观测到黎明任务——矿物组成和表面结构概念的演变

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624601762

V. D. Vdovichenko, V. G. Teifel, G. A. Kharitonova

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Ponderomotive Disturbance of the Solar Wind Velocity before the Fronts of Shock Waves 激波锋面前太阳风速度的重力动力扰动

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624602093

A. V. Guglielmi, A. S. Potapov, F. Z. Feygin

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Design and Optimizing an Interplanetary Trajectory of a Spacecraft to Mercury 设计和优化航天器到水星的行星际轨迹

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624602056

O. S. Chernenko, I. A. Nikolichev

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Plasma-Dust Processes in the Vicinity of Comets 彗星附近的等离子尘埃过程

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624601695

S. I. Popel, A. P. Golub’, L. M. Zelenyi

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Experimental Transformation of the Chelyabinsk LL5 Meteorite Matter of Light-colored Lithology into Dark-colored Lithology 车里雅宾斯克LL5陨石浅色岩性向深色岩性转化的实验研究

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S003809462460197X

E. V. Petrova, V. I. Grokhovsky

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The Influence of Water on the Formation of a Dusty Plasma Exosphere above the Surface of an Asteroid 水对小行星表面尘埃等离子体外逸层形成的影响

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S0038094624602160

A. Yu. Dubinsky, Yu. S. Reznichenko, S. I. Popel

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Classification of Craters Clusters in the Expanded Catalog of Fresh Impact Sites on Mars 火星上新撞击地点扩展目录中陨石坑群的分类

IF 0.6 4区物理与天体物理

Solar System Research Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1134/S003809462460207X

E. Podobnaya, O. Popova, D. Glazachev, B. Ivanov

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