Two-dimensional Non-linear Alfvén Wings Generated by the Electrodynamic Interaction between Callisto and the Jovian Magnetosphere |
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Authors: | Elena S Belenkaya |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Russia |
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Abstract: | When a highly conducting magnetized plasma passes an object with lower conductivity, or a body with inhomogeneous conductivity,
2-D structures are formed, the so-called `Alfvén wings'. These structures may arise, for example, at a Jovian moon without
an intrinsic magnetic field (Callisto). In this case, Alfvén wings could be generated in the magnetized Jovian magnetospheric
plasma flow owing to the in homogeneity of the moon's ionosphere/atmosphere conductivity. Such Alfvén wings may be considered
as a satellite magnetosphere; the satellite magnetospheric magnetic field is a disturbed field of the Jovian magnetospheric
plasma flow. An analytical solution is obtained in a simple proposed model.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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