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Magnetosphere of Jupiter

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I've listed this article for peer review because it has been expanded considerably in the past several months and needs input from editors not familiar with the text. The final destination point for this article is FAC.

Thanks, Ruslik (talk) 19:20, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Comments from RJH:

• Statements like "Powerful volcanic eruptions", "a dramatic torus", "would easily fit inside it", "seriously disturbed" and "vast magnetosphere" might raise eyebrows during a FAC. (Personally I don't have an issue with the wording, but I thought I'd mention it.)

  This was fixed by Serendipodous. Ruslik (talk) 13:51, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

• "the so called direct current, which is not to be confused with the direct current" may be confusing. I tried to address it by adding "used in an electrical circuit", but I'm not sure I succeeded since the same term is used earlier in the paragraph. Perhaps something like "the direct current generated by a battery" would work?

  I moved the explanation to a note. Ruslik (talk) 13:51, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

• "then radically away from the planet in the plasma sheet (radial current)..." Should the 'radically' be 'radially' here?

  Fixed. Ruslik (talk) 13:51, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

• "Jupiter is a powerful source of radio waves--kind of a radio pulsar..." It might be good here to say something like "periodically varying radio waves" so the analogy with a pulsar is clearer.

  Fixed by Serendipodous. Ruslik (talk) 13:51, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

• I think "Lorentz resonance" needs to be explained.

  Added an explanatory note. Ruslik (talk) 13:51, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

• "Plasma originating from Io carries sulfur and sodium ions farther from the planet, where they are implanted preferably on the trailing hemispheres of Europa and Ganymede. On Callisto the sulfur is concentrated on the trailing hemisphere." One of these should probably be on the leading hemisphere, otherwise why the separate sentences? Or is the point that no sodium is deposited on Callisto? &c.

  I clarified that the reasons why Callisto is different are unknown. Ruslik (talk) 13:51, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

  • I'm not sure I communicated my issue properly. The wording implies that sulfur is preferably concentrated on the trailing hemispheres of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Why the separate sentences?

Fixed. Ruslik (talk) 15:23, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks.—RJH (talk) 17:07, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. Ruslik (talk) 13:53, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Comments

• the caption Io's interaction with Jupiter's magnetosphere. The Io plasma torus is in yellow. is attached to an image where the legend seems to suggest the phenomena happens for all the (major) satellites. please clarify
• File:PIA04433 Jupiter Torus Diagram.jpg page could use some tidying up
• the further reading section seems really long and full of articles that are not reviews; aren't any of those worth expanding about in the text instaed of leaving them at the bottom of the article?
• Jupiter as a pulsar - try rephrasing this title

Nergaal (talk) 08:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

• The Io image is probably wrong in that case, so should probably be photoshopped.
• The image file is an issue with the Wikimedia Commons, not this article.
• Do you not like the assertion that Jupiter is a pulsar?Serendi^podous 09:11, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
  • Actually all satellites are sources of material in the magnetosphere, but Io provides more than 90% of the total. So this image is more about Io-Jupiter interactions. As to further reading, I chose the most interesting articles, which were not necessary for me to write this article, but still are worth reading.
  • Jupiter as a pulsar. I wanted to emphasize that the physics of Jovian and pulsar's magnetospheres is basically the same. Ruslik (talk) 18:11, 9 May 2009 (UTC)