Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982georl...9.1321p&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 9, Dec. 1982, p. 1321-1324.
Physics
54
Io, Jupiter Atmosphere, Plasma Dynamics, Rotating Plasmas, Space Plasmas, Ionization, Neutral Atoms, Planetary Ionospheres, Plasma Generators, Toruses
Scientific paper
The departure of the Jovian magnetosphere from rigid corotation is adequately explained by outward plasma transport at distances where L is greater than approximately 10. The departure of 5% observed in the Io plasma torus, however, is too large to be accounted for simply by plasma transport. Local plasma production is proposed as the main factor determining the corotation lag in the torus. The outward pick-up current provided by ionization of neutral atoms is calculated and related to the current produced in the ionosphere by the corotation lag. This leads to an expression giving the corotation lag of the torus as a function of radial distance. Charge transfer is found to be an important process, allowing the majority of the torus mass to be ejected from the magnetosphere in a neutral state. Thus, the mass loading rate is found to be several times that inferred from examination of the corotation lag associated with outward plasma transport.
Hill Thomas W.
Pontius Duane Henry Jr.
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