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Levy et al. 1981
Levy, G.S., Green, D.W., Royden, H.N., Wood, G.E. and Tyler, G.L. (1981). Dispersive doppler measurement of the electron content of the torus of Io. Journal of Geophysical Research 86: doi: 10.1029/JA080i010p08467. issn: 0148-0227.

As Voyager 1 made its swing-by of Io, it passed through and behind the satellite's plamsa torus. The phase paths of the coherent 13 cm and 3.6-cm wavelength signals transmitted from the spacecraft were shortened differentially by the plasma, resulting in the observation of a dispersive Doppler signature in the signals received at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) deep space network (DSN) stations. Ray path integration through three different models of the electron distribution of the torus of Io (Warwick et al. 1979; Birmingham et al., this issue; Bagental et al., this issue) have performed. The results of the integrations are compared with the dispersive doppler data.

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