The Jovian Plasmasphere in Tilted Dipole Model

A. Tan；S. T. Wu

Chinese Journal of Physics

19卷1期（1981 / 05 / 01）

30 - 34

英文

A model of the plasmasphere of Jupiter in the tilted dipole approximation is presented. The distributions of electrons under the conditions of isothermal diffusive equilibrium and adiabatic diffusive equilibrium are obtained. In either case, the maximum electron density is found near the geographic equatorial plane rather than the dipole equatorial plane. The surface on which gravitational and centrifugal forces balance is also oriented around the rotational axis rather than the dipole axis.