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May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusm.p21b..03c&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #P21B-03
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2716 Energetic Particles, Precipitating, 2720 Energetic Particles, Trapped, 2732 Magnetosphere Interactions With Satellites And Rings, 6218 Jovian Satellites, 2431 Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736)
Scientific paper
The energetic (keV to MeV) heavy ion population in the inner jovian magnetosphere, out to Io's orbit, originates mostly from acceleration of Io plasma torus ions and contributes to erosion of satellite surfaces and ring particles by sputtering. Photo- and plasma-ionization of iogenic neutrals, magnetospheric pickup of the resultant ions, and magnetospheric acceleration processes produce high fluxes of oxygen and sulfur ions at total energies above 40 MeV which are measured by the Heavy Ion Counter (HIC) instrument on the Galileo Orbiter. Directional measurements during the spacecraft's 20-second spin period allow determination of local anisotropy distributions with respect to magnetic pitch angles of magnetospheric ions and to absorption by satellite surfaces approached during close flybys. Numerical modeling of anisotropy data from these flybys allows limits to be set on the ion charge states and on models for the magnetic environments including possible presence of internal field sources. The Io phase of the Galileo satellite tour has concluded with successful HIC and magnetometer data return from five of seven flybys, including two passes (I31 and I32) over Io's poles. The absorption signatures from the polar passes are very different from the more equatorial ones (J0, I24, I27) and modeling is in progress to determine best-fit configurations of Io's global magnetic environment. Due to high electronic thresholds for the heavy ion measurements, HIC has been insensitive to magnetospheric electron and proton backgrounds during these flybys and is expected to return good data for the upcoming Amalthea flyby on Nov. 5, 2002. This assumes that spacecraft systems will survive the return to perijove (2.0 Rj) just outside Jupiter's main ring (1.8 Rj), first traversed by Pioneer 11 in Dec. 1974 and again by the Galileo Probe twenty-one years later. Detectors on both of these latter spacecraft resolved the cutoff of magnetospheric ion flux by interaction with the jovian ring particles and/or the shepard satellites, and part of this interaction region within the gossamer ring zone extending outwards from the main ring will also be accessible to HIC. It would be highly desirable from engineering (e.g., radiation effects on electronics) and magnetospheric science perspectives if real-time telemetry from HIC and other durable systems could be returned as long as possible for the final plunge through the ring system and the innermost ion radiation belt, first discovered by Galileo Probe. One of the first reports on post-launch science data from Galileo Orbiter concerned measurements of solar flare ions by HIC, and it seems appropriate that the final science and engineering data could also returned by that instrument. Particular acknowledgement of encouragement and support is given to the late Dr. Thomas L. Garrard of the HIC group at Caltech. Deep thanks are due to Dr. Edward C. Stone, the HIC Principal Investigator, and to Dr. Christina M. S. Cohen, for continuous support of HIC science data processing at Caltech. The local support at GSFC of Dr. Neil Gehrels, HIC Co-Investigator, has been deeply appreciated. Funding through Raytheon ITSS is gratefully acknowledged for contract NASW-99029 from NASA's Jovian System Data Analysis Program and for NAS5-98156 from the Space Science Data Operations Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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