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Barbosa 1994
Barbosa, D.D. (1994). Stochastic acceleration of energetic ions in Jupiter's magnetosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: doi: 10.1029/94JA00550. issn: 0148-0227.

An equation governing the combined radial diffusion and stochastic acceleration of super-Alfv¿nic ions by magnetohydrodynamic waves in Jupiter's outer magnetosphere is derived. The formulation is based upon a total energy invariant of the adiabatic transport which applies to an isotropic distribution undergoing rapid pitch angle scattering by waves. An analytic solution to the double diffusion equation is obtained and numerical results are presented for two models of ion injection. The first assumes S+ and O+ are injected throughout a broad region of space through photoionization of Jupiter's magnetospheric neutral wind and obtain an initial energy corresponding to the local corotation energy after pickup the planetary magnetic field. The second model assumes a monoenergetic distribution of energetic protons is implanted in the middle magnetosphere by the action of field-aligned potential drops in Jupiter's auroral ionosphere. For both light and heavy ions the injection process creates a seed population of particlew which are further accelerated nonadiabatically by the MHD waves and adiabatically through radial diffusion. A comparison of the theoretical results with a recent data analysis of Voyager low-energy charged particle measurements is made with very good agreement, thus providing a rigorous quantitative account of and definitive explanation for the high-energy ion component of Jupiter's magnetosphere. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1994

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Magnetospheric Physics, Planetary magnetospheres, Magnetospheric Physics, Energetic particles, trapped, Space Plasma Physics, Kinetic and MHD theory, Space Plasma Physics, Wave-particle interactions
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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