The role of energetic particle precipitation in Jovian magnetospherics. I - Secondary electrons from the ionosphere of Jupiter

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May 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979georl...6..389s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 6, May 1979, p. 389-392.

Physics

Electron Precipitation, Jupiter Atmosphere, Planetary Ionospheres, Planetary Magnetospheres, Secondary Emission, Electron Energy, Graphs (Charts), Thermal Plasmas, Jupiter, Electrons, Escape Flux, Ionosphere, Plasmas, Flux, Thermal Properties, Magnetosphere, Energy

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Escape of photoelectrons from the Jovian ionosphere produces only a meager source of thermal plasma for the inflated centrifugally unstable magnetosphere and is unable to account for the 100 eV thermal plasma temperatures of the magnetosphere. Since the Jovian magnetosphere is well populated with highly energetic electrons, the creation of secondaries and the energy degradation of the primaries precipitating into the lower ionosphere provide additional sources of magnetospheric thermal plasma as well as of the energy for further elevating the plasma temperatures in the top side ionosphere. The efficiencies with which escaping electrons are created by precipitating electrons with energies up to several MeV are computed using energetic electron transport and thermalization codes. The more energetic incident fluxes are far less efficient in creating escaping electrons than the lower energy fluxes with only 0.001% of the secondaries escaping for a 1 MeV source versus 3% for a 1 keV source. Incident fluxes of the order of 10 to 100 per sq cm per sec per eV between 100 eV and 100 keV are required to produce 50 eV escape fluxes comparable to those generated by solar EUV.

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