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| Titel |
Io's Interaction with the Plasma Torus: Multi-Species Hybrid Simulations |
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Ondrej Sebek, Pavel Travnicek, Raymond Walker, Petr Hellinger |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250133798
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-14448.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| We present analysis of global 3-dimensional multi-species hybrid
simulations of Io's interaction with Jovian magnetospheric plasma. In
the multi-species simulations we assume five species, plasma torus is
composed of O+, S+ and S++ ions and ions of SO+, SO2+ are created
around Io by ionization of its neutral atmosphere. We consider several
ionization processes, namely, charge exchange ionization and
photoionization/electron impact ionization. We compare our results to
data acquired in situ by the Galileo spacecraft. Our results are in a
good qualitative agreement with the in situ magnetic field
measurements made during Galileo's flybys around Io. |
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