Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jgr...10320031h&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 103, Issue E9, p. 20031-20054
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics
Scientific paper
Since the Ulysses flyby of Jupiter in February 1992, a consistent picture of the bulk flows of hot plasma has yet to be formed. The present study reports a comprehensive analysis of energetic particle anisotropies from the Ulysses mission. We present an empirical model which separates flow from gradient anisotropies. The model employs a multidimensional minimization routine to fit simultaneously 13 free parameters using 98 measurements. The large number of independent measurements is possible because the Ulysses Heliosphere Instrument for Spectra, Composition, and Anisotropy at Low Energy (HI-SCALE) has nearly full angular coverage at high time resolution and moderately high angular resolution. The model uses the full energy range (~50-3000 keV) of the low-energy magnetic spectrometers and also the pure proton channels of the composition aperture on the instrument. We present flow results during the inbound pass of Ulysses in which the radial velocity component shows a persistent radial outflow. The azimuthal component is in the sense of planetary rotation but generally below rigid corotation, and the azimuthal velocity is greater near the plasma current sheet than at higher magnetic latitudes. Outbound, the flows in the high-latitude duskside magnetosphere inferred from the particle anisotropies indicate, surprisingly, sunward flows opposite to planetary rotation. We find evidence of gradient anisotropies especially near the magnetospheric current sheet on the dayside. We present a picture of the global magnetic field configuration and flows of hot plasma, consistent with our model results, dominated by subcorotation at low latitudes but by sunward flow at high latitudes.
Cheng Andrew F.
Hawkins Edward S.
Lanzerotti Louis J.
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