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Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993angeo..11..973k&link_type=abstract
Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0992-7689), vol. 11, no. 11/12, p. 973-989
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Extremely Low Frequencies, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetospheres, Plasma Interactions, Wave Propagation, Jupiter (Planet), Mercury (Planet), Satellite Observation, Saturn (Planet), Uranus (Planet)
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Five other planets besides the Earth (Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) in our solar system are now known to possess internal magnetic fields. The exploration of these planets by the Mariner, Pioneer, Voyager and Ulysses spacecraft has revealed that all of them possess fully expressed magnetospheres which share several similarities in their structures with the Earth's magnetosphere. This paper presents an overview of the work done so far in the field of the ULF waves in the magnetospheres of Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. To give an idea of the expected wave periods, gyroperiods of the dominant ion species and the fundamental periods of the standing Alfven waves are presented as functions of L parameter in these magnetospheres. In the magnetosphere of Mercury, ULF waves were observed in the vicinity of the magnetopause and in the inner magnetosphere with frequencies in the range of 0.1-0.5 Hz. In the magnetosphere of Jupiter, at least three different types of wave sources are observed. Near the dayside and the dawn magnetopause, waves with periods 5-20 min and amplitudes between 5 and 10 nT are observed which may be caused by an interaction between the corotating outflowing plasma and the antisunward moving plasma from the magnetosheath. In Saturn's magnetosphere, ULF waves have been observed to be strongly confined to the plasma sheet and have wave periods in the range of 5-60 minutes. The calculated fundamental has a wave period of 5-6 hours in the region where these waves were observed. The ULF waves have extremely small amplitudes (approximately = 0.3 nT) in the magnetosphere of Uranus. These waves were also seen to be confined to the low magnitude latitudes and have periods much shorter than that of the fundamental of a standing Alfven wave.
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