Europa's Alfvén Wing: Shrinking and Displacement by an Induced Magnetic Field

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufm.p31a0969v&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #P31A-0969

Physics

5737 Magnetospheres (2756), 6218 Jovian Satellites, 2732 Magnetosphere Interactions With Satellites And Rings

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An Alfvén wing (AW) is created by the interaction of a conducting body with a flowing magnetized plasma. In this presentation we investigate the AW created by the moon Europa in the Jovian magentosphere. During its 7 years of duty the Galileo spacecraft has visited Europa 11 times, out of which 4 flybys were crossing the Europan AW. We have studied the properties of the AW using the magnetic field data, with the moon embedded in different background magnetic field and plasma parameters. We have found the predicted shrinking and displacement of the AW by the induced magentic field in Europa. We also show that the characteristics of the AW can be used to get information about the local plasma parameters.

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