Published June 1, 1979
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Journal article
Voyager 1: energetic ions and electrons in the Jovian magnetosphere
Description
The observations of the cosmic-ray subsystem have added significantly to our knowledge of Jupiter's magnetosphere. The most surprising result is the existence of energetic sulfur, sodium, and oxygen nuclei with energies above 7 megaelectron volts per nucleon which were found inside of Io's orbit. Also, significant fluxes of similarly energetic ions reflecting solar cosmic-ray composition were observed throughout the magnetosphere beyond 11 times the radius of Jupiter. It was also found that energetic protons are enhanced by 30 to 70% in the active hemisphere. Finally, the first observations were made of the magnetospheric tail in the dawn direction out to 160 Jupiter radii
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Science
- Journal Volume
- 204
- Series
- Science.
- Journal Page Range
- 1003-1007
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 11519690
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; JUPITER PLANET; MEV RANGE 100-1000; OXYGEN IONS; PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERES; SODIUM IONS; SOLAR WIND; SULFUR IONS; VOYAGER SPACE PROBES
- Descriptors DEC
- ATMOSPHERES; ATOMIC IONS; CHARGED PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; IONS; MEV RANGE; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES; PLANETS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPACE VEHICLES