Impact of the transport of magnetospheric electrons on the composition of the Triton atmosphere

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Fig. 5

Comparison of the electron flux j*(E) (dash-dotted red line) derived from the flux j(E) from Strobel et al. (1990) and Eq. (12) following the results of Sittler & Hartle (1996), and the renormalized flux $j_{CD}^{*} (E)$ $j_{{\rm{CD}}}^ * (E)$ (solid orange line). This flux is computed from j*(E) with Eq. (16), so that the electrons deposit the correct amount of power in the Triton atmosphere, with the hypothesis that this power is deposited by curvature drift.

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