Published October 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Data for secondary-electron production from ion precipitation at Jupiter III: Target and projectile processes in H+, H, and H + H2 collisions

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, United States of America (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, United States of America (United States)
  • 3. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66045, United States of America (United States)

Description

To extend the range of data required for modeling the secondary-electron production from ion precipitation into the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, inelastic processes for collisions of 1 keV to 25 MeV H+, H, and H with H2 are considered. As in other work treating the dominant heavy-ion species of magnetospheric origin, O and S ions (Schultz et al., 2017, 2019; Gharibnejad et al., 2019) the classical trajectory Monte Carlo method is employed to describe the secondary-electron-producing channels (single and double ionization, transfer ionization, and single and double stripping) as well as the other inelastic channels (single and double charge transfer and projectile and target excitation) required to model the energy loss and charge state evolution of the precipitating ions in their passage through the atmospheric gas. Data is described and tabulated both as directly obtained from these calculations and normalized to widely accepted recommended values (Hunter et al., 1990) for channels for which recommendations exist. As in the previous work, the overall accuracy and completeness of the data presented is verified by use of a Monte Carlo ion-transport simulation to obtain the stopping power and ion-fraction populations as a function of impact energy in comparison with accepted values. The addition of the present data to models of secondary-electron production in Jupiter's atmosphere improves such model's ability to interpret in situ observations of the precipitating ions' effect by the spacecraft Juno as well as enhancing the physical reality of models of the coupling of the Jovian magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere.

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adt.2019.101307

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DOI
10.1016/j.adt.2019.101307;
PII
S0092640X19300701;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables
Journal Page Range
p. 101307
ISSN
0092-640X
CODEN
ADNDAT

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