Electron Beams and lon Composition Measured at lo and in Its Torus

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Oct 1996

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Science, Volume 274, Issue 5286, pp. 401-403

Computer Science

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Intense, magnetic field-aligned, bidirectional, energetic (>15 kiloelectron volts) electron beams were discovered by the Galileo energetic particles detector during the flyby of Io. These beams can carry sufficient energy flux into Jupiter's atmosphere to produce a visible aurora at the footprint of the magnetic flux tube connecting Io to Jupiter. Composition measurements through the torus showed that the spatial distributions of protons, oxygen, and sulfur are different, with sulfur being the dominant energetic (>~10 kiloelectron volts per nucleon) ion at closest approach.

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