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Published July 1, 1992 | Published
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Magnetic Field Models From Energetic Particle Data at Neptune

Abstract

The locations of features in the Voyager 2 energetic particle data from Neptune are combined with uncertainties in the multipole expansion of the planetary magnetic field to derive new magnetic field models that are consistent both with various interpretations of the particle features and with the magnetic field data. While assumptions as to the origin of the features must be made, they do not provide sufficient constraints to obtain significant new information on any of the unknown multipole coefficients. However, the magnetic L shell positions of the particle features, which are interpreted primarily as absorption signatures of Neptune's satellites, can, in general, be brought into agreement with expected values.

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Copyright 1992 by the American Geophysical Union. (Received October 21, 1991; revised March 20, 1992; accepted March 27, 1992.) I thank J. E. P. Connerney for helpful discussion. This work was supported by NASA under contract NAS7-918 and grant NAGW-2402. The editor thanks J. W. Belcher and D. Hamilton for their assistance in evaluating this pape.

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