Mass pickup in sub-Alfvenic plasma flow - A case study for Io

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Sep 1984

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Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 32, Sept. 1984, p. 1079-1086.

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Io, Jupiter Satellites, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Mass Flow Rate, Plasma Currents, Ion Currents, Perturbation Theory, Planetary Environments, Plasma Diagnostics, Plasma-Particle Interactions

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Mass pickup may be an important process in the vicinity of the Jovian satellite Io and could be largely responsible for the slowing and deviation of the magnetospheric plasma flow in Io's vicinity. Theoretical treatments hitherto have treated a flow dominated by mass pickup near Io in a manner exactly analogous to the case where Io's immediate vicinity is treated as a simple electrical conductor. The analogy, although instructive, is not exact, for it does not take account of the increased mass density in the flow downstream of Io. It is pointed out that when correctly treated, mass pickup gives rise to a distinct wake structure behind Io. Observationally, there is no way at present of distinguishing between dominant mechanisms using the Voyager 1 data; a wake pass is needed.

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