Encounters with Jupiter - the Low Energy Charged Particle results of Voyager

Journal Article · · Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6805614

Carbary, J F; Krimigis, S M

Results of the Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) experiments on board the Voyager spacecraft, designed to measure the fluxes and compositions of ions of energies 28 keV or greater and electrons of energies 15 keV or greater, during Jupiter encounter are presented. Observations of intense particle bursts coming from Jupiter several weeks before Jovian magnetosphere entry, magnetopause crossings, a hot corotating outer magnetospheric plasma, decreases in particle fluxes at the orbits of the Galilean satellites 10-hr particle flux periodicities and a magnetospheric wind are discussed. A new model of the Jovian magnetosphere based on the Voyager results is presented, and areas of continuing LECP Jovian data analysis are indicated.

• Research Organization: Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD
• OSTI ID: 6805614
• Journal Information: Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig.; (United States), Journal Name: Johns Hopkins APL Tech. Dig.; (United States) Vol. 1; ISSN JHADD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

640107* -- Astrophysics & Cosmology-- Planetary Phenomena
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ATMOSPHERES
CHARGED PARTICLES
DATA
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
HOT PLASMA
INFORMATION
JUPITER PLANET
NUMERICAL DATA
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERES
PLANETS
PLASMA
SPACE VEHICLES
VEHICLES
VOYAGER SPACE PROBES