High-Energy Charged Particles in the Innermost Jovian Magnetosphere

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May 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996sci...272..856f&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 272, Issue 5263, pp. 856-858

Physics

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The energetic particles investigation carried by the Galileo probe measured the energy and angular distributions of the high-energy particles from near the orbit of lo to probe entry into the jovian atmosphere. Jupiter's inner radiation region had extremely large fluxes of energetic electrons and protons; intensities peaked at ~2.2R_J (where R_J is the radius of Jupiter). Absorption of the measured particles was found near the outer edge of the bright dust ring. The instrument measured intense fluxes of high-energy helium ions (~62 megaelectron volts per nucleon) that peaked at ~1.5R_J inside the bright dust ring. The abundances of all particle species decreased sharply at ~1.35R_J this decrease defines the innermost edge of the equatorial jovian radiation.

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