Plasma in the Nightside Magnetosphere and the Implications for Global Circulation

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May 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsm43b..01m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SM43B-01

Physics

2731 Magnetosphere: Outer, 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), 6275 Saturn

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We present evidence in the CAPS data for two `states` encountered in the magnetospheric tail. One state is represented by mass-loaded flux tubes, subcorotating with a stretched and lagging field configuration. These flux tubes have yet to pinch-off and release plasma downtail in the form of plasmoids or a planetary wind. The second state consists of the depleted, less-stretched flux tubes which indicate plasma release in the nightside tail. We discuss the plasma characteristics of both states and the implications for tail dynamics and global mass- loss.

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