Surface waves on Uranus' magnetopause

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Dec 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....9215347l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, Dec. 30, 1987, p. 15347-15353.

Physics

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Magnetopause, Planetary Magnetospheres, Spacecraft Trajectories, Surface Waves, Uranus Atmosphere, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Eigenvalues, Magnetosheath, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Orbits

Scientific paper

Uranus' magnetosphere has a well-developed, thick magnetopause that was fully traversed twice by Voyager 2, once inbound to the planet and once outbound. This boundary appears to resemble earth's magnetopause in approximate shape and even to the extent of supporting surface waves which were observed on the inbound pass at a distance of 18.3 Uranus radii. There were apparently eight partial transitions from the magnetosheath into the current sheet of the magnetopause at this time, followed by a final complete transition to the magnetosphere. Six of the estimated normal vectors to the local boundary show clear evidence of oscillations in the slope with typical angular excursions, from one partial transition to the next, of about 90 deg. The vectors oscillated approximately in a plane that was severely tilted by about 49 deg with respect to Uranus' orbital plane.

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