The role of solar wind reconnection in driving the Neptune radio emission

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Oct 1991

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Journal of Geophysical Research Supplement (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 96, Oct. 30, 1991, p. 19,111-19,116.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Magnetic Field Reconnection, Neptune (Planet), Planetary Radiation, Radio Emission, Solar Planetary Interactions, Solar Wind, Planetary Magnetospheres, Radio Astronomy, Radio Bursts, Temporal Resolution

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The only remote diagnostic of conditions within the outer planets' magnetospheres is the highly variable flux of low-frequency radio waves. As at the other radio planets, Neptune radio emission also manifests, on a time scale of days, major intensity fluctuations that are indicative of a solar wind energy-coupling process of some kind. It is found that the merging of interplanetary magnetic field lines with Neptune's magnetosphere is the best predictor of emitted radio energy. By contrast, viscouslike energy coupling processes, such as might be caused by solar wind density or bulk speed fluctuations, are apparently ineffective in driving the radio emission.

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