NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF NONADIABATIC PARTICLE MOTIONS IN THE JOVIAN MAGNETOSPHERE - COMPARISONS WITH ULYSSES OBSERVATIONS

Citation
B. Drolias et al., NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF NONADIABATIC PARTICLE MOTIONS IN THE JOVIAN MAGNETOSPHERE - COMPARISONS WITH ULYSSES OBSERVATIONS, Planetary and space science, 44(2), 1996, pp. 153-161
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00320633
Volume
44
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
153 - 161
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-0633(1996)44:2<153:NSONPM>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The Ulysses encounter with Jupiter gave a unique opportunity for the s tudy of ions in the Jovian day side in the range 0.3 < (E/nuc) < 6 MeV . The EPAC experiment has already provided a wealth of interesting res ults concerning the composition and the anisotropies in the magnetosph ere (Krupp et al., Planet. Space Sci. 41, 953, 1993), however a more c omplete understanding of the observations is still lacking from the sc ientific literature. This paper contributes to the held with the analy sis of numerical simulations of non-adiabatic trajectories in Jupiter' s current sheet and the calculation of the appropriate anisotropies. T he results presented here differ from the existing numerical results i n that they seem to be in good agreement with the observations of both the Ulysses and Voyager encounters.