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Cheng 1992
Cheng, A.F. (1992). A model of convection and corotation in Jupiter's magnetosphere: Ulysses predictions. Geophysical Research Letters 19: doi: 10.1029/92GL00122. issn: 0094-8276.

The Ulysses Jupiter encounter will include the first spacecraft pass through the dusk magnetosphere and will allow new tests of Jovian convection and corotation models. The Cheng and Krimigis [1989> model is extended to suggest that corotation lag occurs principally within the magnetodisk proper, which extends out to ~60--70 Rj. It is predicted that outside this radius, in the pre-midnight sector, spin-up to near corotation may occur owing to a local reduction in the outward mass transport rate. The mass loss may occur mainly in the dawn sector, to the magnetosphere wind and the dawn magnetosheath.

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Magnetospheric Physics, Planetary magnetospheres, Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma convection, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
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Geophysical Research Letters
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