High resolution measurements of density structures in the Jovian plasma sheet

Details High resolution measurements of density structures in the Jovian plasma sheet High resolution measurements of density structures in the Jovian plasma sheet

Jul 1991

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Atmospheric Radiation, Corotation, Jupiter Atmosphere, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Plasma Density, Plasma Layers, Continuous Spectra, Electron Density (Concentration), Magnetic Flux, Plasma Waves, Radiation Trapping

Scientific paper

A recent effort to digitize the plasma density by using the low frequency cutoff of trapped continuum radiation in the vicinity of the Jovian plasma sheet has revealed the existence of sharply defined density structures in the plasma sheet. These structures typically have a plasma density which is relatively constant but of order 50 percent greater or less than in the surrounding plasma. At the boundaries of these structures, the transitions from low to high density occur on time scales of about ten seconds, which correspond to spatial dimensions on the order of a few ion Larmor radii. The structures themselves last for intervals from less than a minute to more than five minutes, corresponding to size scales from a fraction of a Jovian radius to more than a Jovian radius, depending of the velocity of the structure relative to the spacecraft. In view of the importance of near corotation plasma flows, these structures are likely to be limited in both the longitudinal and radial dimensions and, therefore, could represent flux tubes with greatly varying plasma content. These observations are presented as among the first to directly address the theoretically proposed interchange instability.

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