Global MHD Simulations of Jupiter's Magnetosphere

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May 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm..sm32a07h&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #SM32A-07

Physics

2753 Numerical Modeling, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, 5729 Ionospheres (2459), 5737 Magnetospheres (2756)

Scientific paper

The Cassini swing-by of Jupiter in December, 2000 for the first time allowed a coordinated observing effort of the Jovian magnetosphere with Cassini acting as an upstream solar wind monitor and with simultaneous Galileo and HST measurements of the magnetosphere and aurora. A global magnetosphere model of the Jovian system would add one more piece of information to this unprecedented data set. We apply our 3D global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model to the Jovian system at the time of the Cassini swing-by. The model contains a realistic magnetic field model, mass loading due to Io and the Io torus and an ionosphere model similar to those used for MHD models of Earth. The model is run using Cassini measurements to set the upstream solar wind conditions. We present results showing the global structure of the magnetosphere and the ionosphere.

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