Types of planetary tori

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May 1987

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Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 70, May 1987, p. 366-378.

Mathematics

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Natural Satellites, Planetary Environments, Satellite Atmospheres, Toruses, Europa, Io, Mass Transfer, Perturbation, Titan, Planets, Toruses, Satellites, Ions, Neutral Particles, Parent Bodies, Source, Dynamics, Classification, Perturbations, Equilibrium, Density, Stability, Parameters, Solar System, Models, Calculations, Decay, Trajectories, Diagrams, Relaxation, Time Scale, Plasma Torus

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While satellite tori are morphologically similar, they divide into dynamically distinct groups whose global balances of ions and neutrals are presently modeled in order to determine how a torus behaves as a consequence of whether it generates itself and whether it disperses or recombines in place. Six possible types of behavior result; attention is given to the equilibrium and stability of each type. The behavior of a perturbation is characterized by a trajectory in the two-dimensional space formed by the ion density and neutral density perturbations. The equilibrium is stable if a perturbation follows its trajectory toward the origin, but is unstable if the motion is away from it. An attempt is made to classify the Jupiter and Saturn tori in this light.

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