Compression of Jupiter's magnetosphere by the solar wind

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Oct 1978

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978jgr....83.4733s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 83, Oct. 1, 1978, p. 4733-4742.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Jupiter Atmosphere, Planetary Magnetospheres, Plasma Interactions, Solar Wind, Spaceborne Astronomy, Current Sheets, Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, Pioneer 10 Space Probe, Pioneer 11 Space Probe, Plasma Density, Trapped Particles, Solar Wind, Jupiter, Magnetosphere, Pioneer 10 Mission, Magnetosheath, Pioneer 11 Mission, Magnetometer, Plasma, Magnetic Fields, Current Sheets, Particles, Flux, Motion, Spacecraft, Density

Scientific paper

Simultaneous sets of interplanetary and planetary data obtained by Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 are compared with a view toward identifying major changes in the solar wind and their possible influence on the Jovian magnetosphere. The results are discussed relative to variations in magnetopause location, pressure balance at the magnetopause, acceleration of energetic trapped radiation, plasma density from the response time of the Jovian magnetosphere, and time constants of magnetospheric circuit models. A major finding is that three out of four cases in which the Pioneers reentered the magnetosheath are the result of time variations associated with changing interplanetary conditions. The compressibility of the Jovian magnetosphere is enhanced because the field inside the magnetopause is not the planetary field but is primarily caused by currents inside the magnetosphere, presumably the equatorial current sheet.

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