Mass-injection rate from Io into the Io plasma torus

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Nov 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980icar...44..291d&link_type=abstract

(IAU, American Astronomical Society, COSPAR, University of Hawaii, and NASA, Colloquium on the Satellites of Jupiter, 5th, Kailu

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Io, Ion Injection, Mass Transfer, Plasma Interactions, Satellite Atmospheres, Toroidal Plasmas, Earth Magnetosphere, Jupiter Atmosphere, Kinetic Energy, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Planetary Mass, Solar Wind

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Theoretical arguments to the effect that both plasma and energy are supplied to the Jovian magnetosphere from primarily internal sources are presented. Two major assumptions are made: (1) that Io is the source of plasma for the Jovian magnetosphere, and that the outward flow of plasma from the torus is the means of drawing from the kinetic energy of rotation of Jupiter to drive magnetospheric phenomena; thereby obtaining a new, independent estimate of the rate of mass injection from Io into the Io plasma torus, and (2) that the solar wind supplies neither plasma nor energy to the Jovian magnetosphere in significant amounts. A lower limit to the rate of mass injection into the torus, which on the average must equal the rate of mass loss from the torus, is therefore derivable through adoption of a value for the power expended to drive the various magnetospheric phenomena.

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