Plasma depletions in the Jovian magnetosphere - Evidence of transport and solar wind interaction

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May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....92.4377m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, May 1, 1987, p. 4377-4398.

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Space Physics

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Jupiter Atmosphere, Planetary Magnetospheres, Plasma Loss, Solar Wind, Spacecraft Trajectories, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Heavy Ions, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Plasma Density, Space Plasmas, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Jupiter, Magnetosphere, Plasma, Depletion, Transport, Solar Wind, Pls, Interaction, Voyager 2, Spacecraft Observations, Plasma Science Instrument, Pressure, Analysis, Diagrams, Satellites, Ganymede, Velocity, Density, Parameters, Temperature, Ions, Spectra, Stability, The

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A series of plasma voids ('dropouts') was observed by the Plasma Science (PLS) experiment in Jupiter's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 encounter with that planet. A reexamination of Voyager 2 data has led to the conclusion that the dropout phenomenon cannot be a manifestation of a plasma wake produced by Ganymede. Rather, the appearance of the dropouts is attributed to changes in the upstream solar wind conditions and the global state of the magnetosphere; the proximity of Voyager 2 to Ganymede at the time is considered to be coincidental. It is suggested that these dropouts are evidence of a state of 'bubbling' of the magnetosphere that alternates with 'laminar' states in which, as in the case of the Voyager 1 encounter with Jupiter, voids are not present and that these states correspond to different processes by which plasma is transported out of the system. The nature of these states is related to changes in the magnitude of the upstream solar wind ram pressure. In the bubbling state, this pressure is higher than in the laminar state and drives an intermittent instability. The analysis presented is one of the first attempts to introduce, in space physics, recently acquired theoretical notions of the physics of the finite-beta plasmas of which the Jovian magnetospheric plasma is an important example.

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