HR: 1340h
AN: SM33A-1244 [Abstracts]
TI: Effect of IMF By and Dipole Tilt on the Interaction between the Solar Wind and the Jovian
Magnetosphere
AU: * Fukazawa, K
EM: fukazawa@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp
AF: Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Honohara 3-13, Toyokawa, 442-8507
Japan
AU: Ogino, T
EM: ogino@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp
AF: Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Honohara 3-13, Toyokawa, 442-8507
Japan
AU: Walker, R J
EM: rwalker@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics University of California, Los Angeles, 6843 Slichter Hall,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
United States
AB:
The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) at Jupiter_fs orbit is mainly in the Y-JSE direction. The Parker spiral angle is 11
degrees at the Jovian orbit (5.2 AU). In addition Jupiter has a dipole tilt of 9.8 degrees. In this paper will use a three
dimensional global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code to model the influence of IMF BY and dipole tilt on the
configuration of Jupiter_fs magnetosphere and thereby extend our previous results in which we only considered the effects of
IMF BZ.
To simulate Jupiter_fs rapidly rotating magnetosphere with dipole tilt, IMF Bz and By we have extended our MHD model to
handle the full three dimensional Jovian magnetosphere by removing the symmetry boundary condition at the equator. In this
presentation we will present results with IMF BZ =XX and By=0.42nT. We used a simulation box with nearly 108 cells
(600,400,400) and grid spacing of 1.5RJ.
We will use the results of this simulation we to demonstrate the basic structure of Jovian magnetosphere as a function of IMF
direction and dipole tilt.
DE: 7843 Numerical simulation studies
DE: 6220 Jupiter
DE: 2134 Interplanetary magnetic fields
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 2756 Planetary magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6030)
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting