Potential reconnection configurations and flows at Jupiter’s magnetopause

Details Potential reconnection configurations and flows at Jupiter’s magnetopause Potential reconnection configurations and flows at Jupiter’s magnetopause

Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsm23b1614d&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SM23B-1614

Physics

[2723] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetic Reconnection, [2724] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetopause And Boundary Layers, [2756] Magnetospheric Physics / Planetary Magnetospheres, [2784] Magnetospheric Physics / Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

Scientific paper

We are developing a model at Jupiter based on the Cooling model of reconnected flux tube motion on Earth’s magnetopause. (Cooling et al, JGR 106, 2001) Our model will test for possible reconnection sites at the magnetopause and map the subsequent flux tube motion. We begin this study by mapping out the Khurana magnetic field (which includes a plasma sheet, radial currents, and magnetopause currents) and the draping of the IMF at the magnetopause to test for regions of possible reconnection by considering the relative field orientations. (Khurana and Schwarzl, JGR 110, 2005) We consider the sensitivity of the magnetospheric field to IMF orientation when a Tsyganenko-like model of IMF penetration is included. The model of Stahara and Spreiter is employed to determine the solar wind flow around Jupiter. (Stahara, et al, JGR 94, 1989) With reasonable models of the flows and fields on either side of the magnetopause, we calculate flux tube motion following reconnection.

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