Do the satellites of Uranus control its magnetosphere?

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Oct 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984nascp2330..557c&link_type=abstract

In JPL Uranus and Neptune p 557-558 (SEE N85-11927 02-91)

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Heavy Ions, Io, Natural Satellites, Planetary Magnetospheres, Satellite Atmospheres, Titan, Uranus (Planet), Atmospheric Composition, Celestial Bodies, Icy Satellites, Plasma Density, Saturn Satellites, Space Plasmas

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The importance of the satellites of Uranus as sources of magnetospheric plasma were investigated. It is found that neither an Io like plasma source nor a Titan like source is likely at Uranus. The likely presence of a heavy ion plasma torus maintained by charged particle sputtering of the icy satellites is examined. Sputtering of Saturn's icy satellites is considered an important source of heavy ion (oxygen) plasma in Saturn's inner magnetosphere. A major unresolved question is whether this sputtering process does depend on the preexistence of magnetospheric heavy ions derived from another source, Titian.

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