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Voyager PLS References

  • 2017 Re-analysis of Voyager PLS ion data
  • Voyager PLS instrument papers
  • PLS papers on the magnetosphere of Jupiter
  • Magnetosheath and deep tail
  • Comparative magnetospheres
  • PhD Theses

2017 Re-analysis of Voyager PLS ion data

Bagenal2017 – JGR – Overview of re-analysis
Dougherty2017 – JGR – Heavy ions
Bodisch2017 – JGR – minor species

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Voyager PLS instrument papers

Bridge1977 – original Space Science Reviews PLS instrument paper

Vasyliunas1971 – Paper by Vytenis Vasyliunas on plasma instruments that is referenced by several of these papers

SittlerMemo1983 – NASA technical memo “Plasma Electron Analysis: Voyager Plasma Science Experiment”

BarnettOlbert1986 – Rev. of Sci. Instruments – revised response function

McNutt1988NASA technical memo “Net Current Measurements and Secondary Electron Emission Characteristics of the Voyager Plasma Science Experiment and Their Impact on Data Interpretation”

Belcher 2016 – Voyager Interstellar  – documentation on PLS measurements during the Voyager Interstellar mission

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Papers (and theses below) on PLS data from the Voyager 1 and 2 flybys of the magnetosphere of Jupiter in 1979.

BridgeV11979 – Science paper for Voyager 1 at Jupiter

BridgeV21979 – Science paper for Voyager 2 at Jupiter

McNutt1979 – Nature paper on flow

SullivanBagenal1979 – Nature – torus spectra

Belcher1980a – GRL – Flow at 32 Rj (vs. LECP)

Belcher1980b – Nature – expansion & contraction

Bagenal1980 – GRL – torus w/scaleheight

Richardson1980GRL – radial diffusion

Bridge1981Adv. Space Sci. – Post-Voyager view

Belcher1981 – JGR – Alfven wave at Io

Bagenal1981 – JGR – torus w/ diffusive equilibrium (Appendix)

McNutt1981 – JGR – Plasma sheet ions survey

Richardson1981JGR – Inward/outward diffusion

Scudder1981JGR – Electrons survey

Tokar1982aJGR –  Light ions

Tokar1982bJGR – Protons

Richardson1983a – JGR – Cooling cold torus

Richardson1983bJGR – Non-Maxwellian ions

McNutt1983 – Adv. Sp. Res. Force balance

Belcher 1983 – Dessler book chapter

McNutt1984 – Phys. Space Plasmas – Force balance

Bagenal1985a – JGR – Inner plasma torus

Bagenal1985b – JGR – Temperature correction

Barnett1986 – JGR – flows near Io flux tube

Belcher1987Science – Io Alfven interaction

Sittler1987  – JGR – Electrons in the inner magnetosphere

Richardson1987b – GRL – Constraints on interchange scales

McNutt1987 – JGR – Plasma depletions

Bagenal1987 – Torus-Magnetosphere coupling (TVPJ)

Sands1988 – JGR – Plasma flow in middle magnetosphere

McNutt1990 – JGR – Auroral secondary electrons

Bagenal1992 – JGR – O++ abundance

McNutt1993 – JGR – K++ detection

Schreier1993JGR – Europa plasma torus

Bagenal1994 – JGR – Empirical model of Io torus

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Magnetosheath and deep tail

Siscoe1980 – GRL – Magnetosheath flows

Lepping1981JGR – Distant magnetotail

Kurth1982JGR – Distant magnetotail

Richardson1987a – JGR – Magnetosheaths J&S

Sittler1987 – JGR – Distant magnetotail

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Comparative Magnetospheres

Belcher1990– Adv. Space Sci. – plasma in outer planet magnetospheres

Bagenal1992bAnn. Rev. Earth Planet Sci. – Planetary magnetospheres

Richardson2002Planet. Space Sci – Magnetosheaths of outer planets

Vasyliunas 2009– Heliophysics summer school

Bagenal 2009 – Heliophysics summer school

Bagenal2013 – in Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems

Magnetosphere diagrams can be found here

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PhD Theses

Sittler1978 -Ed Sittler MIT PhD 1978 – Solar wind

McNutt1980– Ralph McNutt, Jr.  MIT PhD 1980 – Plasma sheet

Bagenal1981– Fran Bagenal MIT PhD 1981 – Io plasma torus

Barnett1983– Alan Barnett MIT PhD 1983 – Instrument response

Sands1987– Mark Sands MIT PhD 1987 – Structure of Jupiter’s dayside middle magnetosphere

Chronopoulos2009  Chris Chronopoulos MIT undergraduate senior thesis 2009 – Interstellar pick up