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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 122, Issue 8, Pages 8241-8256Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016JA023797
Keywords
Jupiter; magnetosphere; plasma; Voyager
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- NASA [NNX09AE03G]
- Juno mission (SWRI) [699050X]
- NASA [118213, NNX09AE03G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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The Voyagers 1 and 2 spacecraft flew by Jupiter in March and July of 1979, respectively. The Plasma Science instrument (PLS) acquired detailed measurements of the plasma environment in the equatorial region of the magnetosphere between 4.9 and 4R(J). While bulk plasma properties such as charge density, ion temperature, and bulk flow were reasonably well determined, the ion composition was only well constrained in occasional regions of cold plasma. The ion data obtained by the PLS instrument have been reanalyzed using physical chemistry models to constrain the composition and reduce the number of free parameters, particularly in regions of hotter plasma. This paper describes the method used for fitting the plasma data and presents the results versus time. Two companion papers describe the composition of heavy ions and present analysis of protons plus other minor ions.
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