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Science 28 December 1973:
Vol. 182. no. 4119, pp. 1348 - 1350
DOI: 10.1126/science.182.4119.1348
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Io-Accelerated Electrons: Predictions for Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11

Stanley D. Shawhan 1, Donald A. Gurnett 1, Richard F. Hubbard 1, and Glenn Joyce 1

1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242

Based on a model in which electrons are accelerated to energies of 100 kiloelectron volts through sheaths associated with Io, predictions are made about energetic electrons to be observed by Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 in the Jovian magnetosphere. This energetic electron source may be distinguishable from the solar wind diffusion source by the radial flux profile and by the characteristic electron energies.


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