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Published October 18, 1996 | public
Journal Article

Effects of Absorption by lo on Composition of Energetic Heavy lons

Abstract

The Galileo heavy ion counter is sensitive to ions with atomic numbers Z ≥ 6 and energies greater than ~6 MeV per nucleon. During Galileo's passage through Jupiter's inner magnetosphere, the observed composition of these heavy ions was consistent with the presence of singly ionized iogenic O, Na, and S and highly ionized solar C, O, and Ne. The solar component is absorbed more strongly by lo because its gyroradius is smaller than Io's diameter.

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© 1996 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 4 September 1996; accepted 23 September 1996. This work was supported in part by NASA under NAS7-918.

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