Conjugate ionospheric flows on Uranus

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Jul 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984natur.309..602i&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 309, July 14, 1984, p. 602-604.

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Atmospheric Circulation, Ionospheric Propagation, Planetary Ionospheres, Plasma Dynamics, Uranus Atmosphere, Energetic Particles, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Night Sky, Planetary Rotation, Toroidal Plasmas, Uranus, Ionosphere, Flows, Rotation, Period, Spin, Dayside, Nightside, Shock, Atmosphere, Thermal Properties, Plasmas, Disk, Particles, Rings, Sputtering, Satellites, Transport, Dynamics, Injection, Diagrams, Calculations

Scientific paper

Consideration of the pointing direction and rotation period of the spin of Uranus suggests that a novel kind of day-to-night ionospheric flow system may exist there. For equatorial distances r < rc (≈2.74 rp), the conjugate ionospheric flow from the dayside hemisphere to the nightside hemisphere could become supersonic as it crosses the equator and a shock forms at the termination point; for r > rc, smooth transition at the contact point between the ionospheric flow from the dayside hemisphere and the nightside atmosphere is possible. The rotational effect of Uranus also limits the inner extension of the thermal plasma disk generated from energetic particle sputtering of the ring-particles and satellites.

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