Energetic Particles in the Jovian Magnetotail

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Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007sci...318..220m&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 318, Issue 5848, pp. 220- (2007).

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When the solar wind hits Jupiter’s magnetic field, it creates a long magnetotail trailing behind the planet that channels material out of the Jupiter system. The New Horizons spacecraft traversed the length of the jovian magnetotail to >2500 jovian radii (RJ; 1 RJ ≡71,400 kilometers), observing a high-temperature, multispecies population of energetic particles. Velocity dispersions, anisotropies, and compositional variation seen in the deep-tail (≳500 RJ) with a ~3-day periodicity are similar to variations seen closer to Jupiter in Galileo data. The signatures suggest plasma streaming away from the planet and injection sites in the near-tail region (~200 to 400 RJ) that could be related to magnetic reconnection events. The tail structure remains coherent at least until it reaches the magnetosheath at 1655 RJ.

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