The Jovian Magnetosphere And Magnetopause
- Creators
- Davis, Leverett, Jr.
- Smith, E. J.
- Other:
- McCormac, B. M.
Abstract
It is convenient to divide the magnetosphere into three regions. The inner magnetosphere extends from the surface to about 25 R_J and is dominated by the basically dipolar field. The outer magnetosphere, on the sunward side, occupies a layer roughly 15 R_J thick just inside the magnetopause. Here the field direction was found by Pioneers 10 and 11 to have a strong southward component, 5 to 10 times as strong as expected if one scales the observations in the Earth's magnetosphere. The middle magnetosphere is the remaining region. Its thickness, again on the sunward side, varies greatly as the magnetopause moves in and out. In this region the field direction turns as one goes outward from nearly dipolar to nearly radial but with a persistent southward component. The field is outward in the northern hemisphere, inward in the southern, separated by a thin (~1 or 2 R_J) warped current sheet in which the magnetic field appears to be very weak and mainly southward.
Additional Information
© 1976 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dorcht, Holland. We are greatly indebted to our coinvestigators on the Vector Helium Magnetometer Team, D.E. Jones, P.J. Coleman, Jr., D.S. Colburn, P. Dyal, and C.P. Sonett, as well as to the many others who worked on the project, for the efforts that yielded the data we have presented. We are indebted to colleagues in the scientific community for discussions and information that were invaluable in developing what understanding we have of Jupiter's magnetic field. We are indebted to NASA Grant NGR-05-002-160 (L.D.) and to NASA Contract NAS 7-100 (E.J.S.) for financial support that enabled us to carry out this research.Additional details
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- 89306
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20180830-095202831
- NGR-05-002-160
- NASA
- NAS 7-100
- NASA
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2018-08-30Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Astrophysics and Space Science Library
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 58