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Walker & Russel 1985
Walker, R.J. and Russel, C.T. (1985). Flux transfer events at the Jovian magnetopause. Journal of Geophysical Research 90: doi: 10.1029/JA090iA08p07397. issn: 0148-0227.

Recent evidence indicates that magnetic reconnection at the earth's magnetopause may not be a steady process, but rather it is frequently impulsive and limited in spatial extent. These limited reconnection events are called flux transfer events (FTE's). We have searched the magnetic field observations at Jupiter from Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 for evidence of FTE's and have found 14 possible events. The FTE's at Jupiter are associated with northward magnetosheath fields. Th electric fields generated by Jovian FTE's ae small in comparison with the corotation E field throughout much of the magnetosphere. Thus FTE's are probably not an important source of flow within the Jovian magnetosphere.

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