Plasma vortices driven by magnetic torsion generated by electric currents in non-magnetic planetary wakes

Hector Javier Durand-Manterola, Alberto Flandes, Hector Perez-de-Tejada

In non-collisional magnetized astrophysical plasmas, vortices can form as it is the case of the Venus plasma wake where Lundin et al. (2013) identified a large vortex through the i…