Ionization of the Venusian atmosphere from solar and galactic cosmic rays

We wish to thank the UCL Graduate School and Sparebank 1 SR-Bank for funding which enabled TAN to carry out this research. LRD is supported by a UK Space Agency Aurora Fellowship.

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