Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsm43c..06h&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SM43C-06
Physics
2744 Magnetotail, 5421 Interactions With Particles And Fields, 6220 Jupiter
Scientific paper
Continuous volcanic activity on Io produces a large population of cold Iogenic neutral gas in the Jovian Magnetosphere. Processes in the Magnetosphere both heat and ionize the gas but roughly one ton/s of the gas and plasma exits the Jovian system. The massive Jovian Magnetotail, stretching at least 4 AU to Saturn's orbit, is the conduit for draining this material away. Owing to the fortuitous trajectory of the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew by Jupiter en route to Pluto, measurements of the charged-particle population were made over 2600 RJ (1 Jovian radius = 71,400 km) almost straight down the giant planet's previously unexplored magnetotail. Dynamic activity near the magnetosphere results in events observed in the tail with velocity dispersive onsets and a composition consistent with an Iogenic source population. Although some Sulfur and Oxygen are continuously flowing down the tail, it is within these dynamic events that the bulk of the Iogenic material is released. These velocity dispersive events are consistent with previous observations closer to Jupiter. The evidence from New Horizons is consistent with these events being deep-tail manifestations of global reconfiguration events.
Haggerty Dennis K.
Hill Matthew E.
McNutt Ralph L.
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