New Compound and Hybrid Binding Energy Sputter Model for Modeling Purposes in Agreement with Experimental Data

Jäggi, Noah; Mutzke, Andreas; Biber, Herbert; Brötzner, Johannes; Szabo, Paul Stefan; Aumayr, Friedrich; Wurz, Peter; Galli, André (2023). New Compound and Hybrid Binding Energy Sputter Model for Modeling Purposes in Agreement with Experimental Data. The planetary science journal, 4(5), p. 86. IOP Publishing 10.3847/psj/acd056

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Rocky planets and moons experiencing solar wind sputtering are continuously supplying their enveloping exosphere with ejected neutral atoms. To understand the quantity and properties of the ejecta, well-established binary collision approximation Monte Carlo codes like TRIM with default settings are used predominantly. Improved models such as SDTrimSP have come forward, and together with new experimental data, the underlying assumptions have been challenged. We introduce a hybrid model, combining the previous surface binding approach with a new bulk binding model akin to Hofsäss & Stegmaier. In addition, we expand the model implementation by distinguishing between free and bound components sourced from mineral compounds such as oxides or sulfides. The use of oxides and sulfides also enables the correct setting of the mass densities of minerals, which was previously limited to the manual setting of individual atomic densities of elements. All of the energies and densities used are thereby based on tabulated data, so that only minimal user input and no fitting of parameters are required. We found unprecedented agreement between the newly implemented hybrid model and previously published sputter yields for incidence angles up to 45° from surface normal. Good agreement is found for the angular distribution of mass sputtered from enstatite MgSiO3 compared to the latest experimental data. Energy distributions recreate trends of experimental data of oxidized metals. Similar trends are to be expected from future mineral experimental data. The model thus serves its purpose of widespread applicability and ease of use for modelers of rocky body exospheres.

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