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Science 1 June 1979:
Vol. 204. no. 4396, pp. 991 - 995
DOI: 10.1126/science.204.4396.991
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Jupiter Plasma Wave Observations: An Initial Voyager 1 Overview

FREDERICK L. SCARF 1, DONALD A. GURNETT 2, and WILLIAM S. KURTH 2

1 Space Sciences Department, TRW Defense and Space Systems Group, Redondo Beach, California 90278
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242

The Voyager I plasma wave instrument detected low-frequency radio emissions, ion acoustic waves, and electron plasma oscillations for a period of months before encountering Jupiter's bow shock. In the outer magnetosphere, measurements of trapped radio waves were used to derive an electron density profile. Near and within the Io plasma torus the instrument detected high-frequency electrostatic waves, strong whistler mode turbulence, and discrete whistlers, apparently associated with lightning. Some strong emissions in the tail region and some impulsive signals have not yet been positively identified.

Submitted on April 23, 1979


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