Schematic of Radio Wave Emissions (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Arlington

Schematic of Radio Wave Emissions

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This is a schematic of a plasma torus around an exoplanet, which is created by the ions injected from an exomoon's ionosphere into the planet's magnetosphere.

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