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Barbosa 1981
Barbosa, D.D. (1981). Dissipation and turbulent heating of plasma in Jupiter’s magnetosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 8: doi: 10.1029/GL008i010p01111. issn: 0094-8276.

Voyager 1 observations of plasma waves in the dayside Jovian magnetosphere which show a correlation with measurements of localized concentrations of cool thermal plasma are presented. This moderately intense broadband electrostatic noise is shown to be of sufficient intensity to accelerate superthermal ions to energies ~1 keV and higher. This process can account for the extensive heating of plasma in the magnetosphere and can energize a fraction of heavy ions to injection threshold for a high-energy second stage acceleration mechanism. A brief discussion of the relation of this noise to Jovian magnetospheric dynamics is included.

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