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Jul 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..624s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, July 1986, p. 624-627.
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Magnetospheric Instability, Planetary Atmospheres, Plasmasphere, Space Plasmas, Particle Trajectories, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Rotation, Solar Wind, Uranus Atmosphere
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The formation of plasmaspheres in planetary magnetospheres with arbitrary orientations of the rotation and magnetic dipole axes is investigated. A traditional plasmasphere with closed orbits inside the plasmapause and open trajectories outside it only occurs for the limiting case of aligned rotation and dipole axes. A time-variable plasmapause exists if the rotation axis is perpendicular to the solar win flow direction. In any other case, no definite plasmapause exists. Solar wind-driven convection transports plasma throughout the magnetosphere with an effectiveness which increases as the orientation goes further from one of the two limiting cases of strict plasmapause formation. The present analysis is applied to earth and Uranus using the actual orientations of the rotation and dipole axes. Particle trajectories at earth deviate only slightly from those obtained with traditional models. Uranus has no plasmasphere, and plasma convects sunwards throughout the inner magnetosphere.
Richardson John D.
Selesnick Richard S.
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