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Survey of the plasma electron environment of jupiter: a view from voyager
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Bridge, H. S. Scudder, J. D. Sittler Jr., E. C. |
| Copyright Year | 1980 |
| Description | The plasma environment within Jupiter's bow shock is considered in terms of the in situ, calibrated electron plasma measurements made between 10 eV and 5.95 keV by the Voyager plasma science experiment (PLS). Measurements were analyzed and corrected for spacecraft potential variations; the data were reduced to nearly model independent macroscopic parameters of the local electron density and temperature. It is tentatively concluded that the radial temperature profile within the plasma sheet is caused by the intermixing of two different electron populations that probably have different temporal histories and spatial paths to their local observation. The cool plasma source of the plasma sheet and spikes is probably the Io plasma torus and arrives in the plasma sheet as a result of flux tube interchange motions or other generalized transport which can be accomplished without diverting the plasma from the centrifugal equator. The hot suprathermal populations in the plasma sheet have most recently come from the sparse, hot mid-latitude "bath" of electrons which were directly observed juxtaposed to the plasma sheet. |
| File Size | 5137374 |
| Page Count | 91 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19800024817 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t91883v95 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1980-08-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Lunar And Planetary Exploration Electron Plasma Shock Waves Coulomb Collisions Bow Waves Voyager Project Jupiter Atmosphere Magnetic Fields Plasma Temperature Planetary Magnetospheres Space Plasmas Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
