Detection of Chlorine Ions in the FUSE Spectrum of the Io Plasma Torus

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Oct 2000

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American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #32, #34.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1054

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The spectrum of the Io plasma torus in the range 995--1087 Å was recorded at ~0.3 Å resolution by the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) on January 20, 2000. Five orbits of data were obtained in point-and-shoot mode (no tracking of the moving target) with the East ansa of the torus initially centered in the 30'' x 30'' aperture of the FUSE LiF spectrographs yielding a total observation time of 3405 seconds. The spectral resolution exceeds by a factor of ten that of the data obtained by the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) during the Astro-1 mission (Moos et al., ApJ 382, L105, 1991). This region of the spectrum is dominated by resonance multiplets of S 3 at 1018 Å and S 4 at 1070 Å, whose multiplet structure is nearly completely resolved, as well as numerous S 2 multiplets originating on the 2D^o state of the ground configuration. Weak emission from the resonance multiplets of Cl 3 at 1011 Å and Cl 2 at 1071 Å are seen, the former being stronger with two components roughly one-tenth the brightness of the main components of S 3 λ 1018. Although collision strengths for Cl ions are not readily available, the isoelectronic relationship between S and Cl ions suggests an abundance of Cl+2 of a few percent relative to S+, similar to the result found by Küppers and Schneider (GRL 27, 513, 1999) for Cl+ from optical spectra. The ratio of S 4 to S 3 brightness is about twice that observed by HUT, which when the different slit geometries are accounted for supports the analysis by Hall et al. (ApJ 420, L45, 1994) that S 4 emissions originate from a region more extended out of the centrifugal plane than the S 3 emissions. We also note the detection of weak He 2 emission at 1025.3 Å, on the blue wing of geocoronal Lyman-β . The origin of the helium ions is not clear at this time. This work is based on data obtained for the Guaranteed Time Team by the NASA-CNES-CSA FUSE mission operated by the Johns Hopkins University. Financial support to U. S. participants has been provided by NASA contract NAS5-32985.

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