Localized reconnection in the near Jovian magnetotail

被引：97

作者：

Russell, CT ^{[1
]}

Khurana, KK

Huddleston, DE

Kivelson, MG

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Inst Geophys & Planetary Phys, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

[2] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Earth & Space Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 1998年 / 280卷 / 5366期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.280.5366.1061

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The oppositely directed magnetic field in the jovian magnetic tail is expected eventually to reconnect across the current sheet, allowing plasma produced deep inside the magnetosphere near lo's orbit to escape in the antisolar direction down the tail. The Galileo spacecraft found localized regions of strong northward and southward field components beyond about 50 jovian radii in the postmidnight, predawn sector of the jovian magnetosphere. These pockets of vertical magnetic fields can be stronger than the surrounding magnetotail and magnetodisk fields. They may result from episodic reconnection of patches of the near jovian magnetotail.

引用

页码：1061 / 1064

页数：4

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