A self-consistent model of the jovian plasma sheet |
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Authors: | Glenn T Vickers |
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Institution: | Department of Applied Mathematics and Computing Science, The University of Sheffield, S10 2TN, England |
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Abstract: | An axially-symmetric, rapidly-rotating magnetosphere containing low-energy plasma is considered. The resulting plasma sheet is presumed isothermal and thin compared with the radius of the sheet. Solutions of the model equations are found which include the effects of centrifugal, pressure and electro-magnetic forces. These solutions show that the sheet has a constant thickness and that the pressure decays exponentially with distance from the equatorial plane. The calculated curves for the magnetic induction field are compared with the observed field of Jupiter. |
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