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Scientific paper
Jun 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..521h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, June 1986, p. 521-524.
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Jupiter Atmosphere, Planetary Magnetospheres, Rotating Plasmas, Space Plasmas, Superrotation, Flyby Missions, Lines Of Force, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Spacecraft Trajectories, Voyager Project, Jupiter, Magnetosphere, Rotation, Corotation, Convection, Plasma, Models, Voyager Missions, Magnetic Fields, Nightside, Longitude, Transport, Flow
Scientific paper
The authors report evidence for superrotation of plasma in the pre-dawn magnetosphere of Jupiter during the outbound segments of the Voyager 1 and 2 encounters. The evidence consists of a forward spiral of magnetic field lines crossing the equatorial plasma sheet, as distinct from the more typical backward spiral associated with subcorotational flow. The limited available statistics indicate that superrotational flow is restricted in local time to the night side, and also restricted in system III longitude to the hemisphere opposite the active sector of the magnetic-anomaly model. The results are compatible with the planetary-wind concept in general and with the corotating convection model in particular.
Hairston Marc R.
Hill Thomas W.
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