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AN: P51A-0205    [Abstracts]
TI: Magnetic Field Modulated Dust Streams From Jupiter in Interplanetary Space
AU: * Flandes, A
EM: flandes@geofisica.unam.mx
AF: Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico, DF 04510, Mexico
AU: Harald, K
EM: krueger@mps.mpg.de
AF: Max-Plank-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Max-Planck-Strasse 2, Katlenburg-Lindau, D-37191, Germany
AU: Harald, K
EM: krueger@mps.mpg.de
AF: Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, Heidelberg, 69117, Germany
AU: Hamilton, D P
EM: hamilton@astro.umd.edu
AF: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, MD MD20742-24, United States
AB: The Ulysses (1992), Galileo (1995) and Cassini (2000) spacecrafts have confirmed the existence of high velocity (>200 km/s) collimated streams of charged (~5V) dust grains escaping from the Jovian magnetosphere to the Interplanetary space, whose dynamics is mainly dominated by the interplanetary Magnetic field (IMF). With Cassini, a similar phenomenon was observed at Saturn as well. There is strong evidence that these Jovian dust streams are closely related to the solar wind and particularly to compression regions, either Corotating interaction regions (CIRs) or –to a minor extent - Coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Actually dust streams seem ultimately to be generated by those strong enough events (B>~2nT).
DE: 2102 Corotating streams
DE: 2129 Interplanetary dust
DE: 6213 Dust
DE: 6219 Io
DE: 6220 Jupiter
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting