Physics
Scientific paper
May 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991jgr....96.7793e&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 96, May 1, 1991, p. 7793-7802. Research supported by U.S. Naval Academy.
Physics
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Current Sheets, Jupiter Atmosphere, Magnetopause, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetospheres, Pioneer 10 Space Probe, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft
Scientific paper
A magnetic field arising from the Jovian equatorial sheet current deduced from Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 observations has been added to a planetary dipole field to provide a model of magnetic field inside the magnetopause. This internal field was used to calculate the magnetopause surface in a cyclic process. During each cycle, the surface was calculated, and the resulting field due to currents on the magnetopause was calculated for inclusion in the total field used to calculate the next-order surface. The resulting magnetopause is, as anticipated, flatter in shape than one resulting primarily from a dipole internal field source, but not dissimilar in overall height-to-width configuration to that of the magnetopause calculated for the larger inflated magnetopause observed by Pioneer 10. An array of magnetic field values for locations internal and external to the magnetopause due to currents on the surface has been computed by integrating over the entire magnetopause. A model for the total magnetospheric field of this semi-inflated magnetosphere has been constructed by adding this latter contribution to the internal source fields to obtain a global model of a semi-inflated Jovianlike magnetospheric field. The magnitude of the contribution of the surface currents to the total magnetic field in the region of the orbits of the Galilean satellites is calculated to be considerably larger for this Voyager model than for the Pioneer model.
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