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  • LUNAR AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION  (4)
  • 1975-1979  (4)
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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2019-06-27
    Description: Preliminary results are reported from measurements made with the low-energy charged particle (LECP) instrument on Voyager 2 as it approached and traversed the Jovian magnetosphere. The primary objectives of the LECP instrument were to make measurements of the hot plasma (no less than about 20 keV and no less than about 28 keV for electrons and ions, respectively), to characterize the composition of the hot plasma and energetic-particle population, and to determine the particle flows and spatial distributions. In addition, the effects associated with the possible wake of Ganymede are discussed. Attention is given to inbound and outbound passes, along with Jovian plasma characteristics. The results suggest that the Jovian magnetosphere is confined by a plasma boundary rather than a conventional magnetopause. Inside the plasma boundary there exists a discontinuity at about 50-60 Jupiter radii, and the region inside this discontinuity is termed the 'inner plasmasphere'.
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    Type: Science; 206; Nov. 23
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2019-06-27
    Description: A four-step mechanism is proposed for the acceleration of energetic protons and relativistic electrons in Jupiter's magnetosphere. According to this mechanism, photoelectrons and ions from the Jovian ionosphere are: (1) ejected along magnetic-field lines toward the equator by the centrifugal force of corotation; (2) accelerated by magnetic-field annihiliation in the magnetotail, which process is modulated at Jupiter's rotational frequency; (3) trapped on closed field lines in the reconnection process, convected inward toward Jupiter from the merging region, and subjected to adiabatic compression; and (4) diffused inward by the conventional radial-diffusion process through a violation of the third adiabatic invariant. It is shown that the proposed mechanism produces magnetic moments much larger than those available from inward diffusion of solar-wind particles or motional emf acceleration at the Galilean satellites, provides a natural explanation for the 10-hr periodicity of the energetic particle fluxes observed inside the magnetosphere by the Pioneer spacecraft, and also produces a 10-hr periodicity in the energetic particle flux from the magnetosphere into interplanetary space in such a way that the phase of interplanetary flux variations is locked to the rotational phase of Jupiter
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research; 81; Oct. 1
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2019-06-27
    Description: Preliminary results of measurements obtained by the low energy charged particle instrument on board the Voyager 1 spacecraft during its traversal of the Jovian magnetosphere are reported. The instrument consists of the low energy particle telescope and the low energy magnetospheric particle analyzer, designed to perform measurements in the inner and outer magnetosphere respectively. Ions and electrons comprising the Jovian magnetosphere were first detected at a distance of about 600 Jupiter radii from the planet, with the first bow shock crossing at 85.6 Jupiter radii. Upon crossing the magnetopause at about 67 Jupiter radii, the flows of electrons and ions were observed to change direction from away from the planet to the corotational direction. The hot plasma near the magnetosphere boundary is comprised predominantly of protons, sulfur and oxygen. Selective particle absorption near the Io flux tube indicates some form of particle deflection by Io. Fluxes in the outbound region were found to be enhanced from 90 to 160 deg longitude, and 5- and 10-hour low energy particle flux periodicities were observed.
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    Type: Science; 204; June 1
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2019-06-27
    Description: In the rotation-dominated model of the Jovian magnetosphere, proposed in the present paper, the plasma current distribution is dynamically consistent with the magnetic field. The model is constructed under the assumptions of an ionospheric plasma source without pitch angle scattering; loss-free radiation transport through flux tube interchange diffusion; and a static balance between centrifugal force and magnetic stress. Using these assumptions, a dynamic equation is derived for a self-consistent field configuration having a single adjustable parameter that is related to the plasma source strength. The equation is solved by an iterative technique. The self-consistent field resembles a radially distorted dipole field, rather than the flat magnetodisk configuration inferred from Pioneer data. The implication is that such a magnetodisk field would require an equatorial plasma source rather than a source at the feet of the field lines.
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    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research; 83; June 1
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