Plasma heating of Io's atmosphere

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May 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992georl..19..949p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 19, no. 9, May 4, 1992, p. 949-952. Research supported by NASA.

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Atmospheric Heating, Io, Plasma Heating, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Satellite Atmospheres, Atmospheric Density, Atmospheric Models, Monte Carlo Method, Temperature Profiles

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A Monte-Carlo, molecule-tracking program was constructed to describe the structure of Io's atmosphere in the region penetrated by ions from the plasma torus. This region is shown to exhibit high temperatures, consistent with corona observations, independent of whether significant UV heating also occurs. The atmospheric structure is determined near the exobase, which is the region responsible for the supply of the Io torus.

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