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Pesses & Goertz 1976
Pesses, M.E. and Goertz, C.K. (1976). Jupiter’s magnetotail as the source of interplanetary Jovian MeV electrons observed at earth. Geophysical Research Letters 3: doi: 10.1029/GL003i004p00228. issn: 0094-8276.

The source of interplanetary Jovian MeV electron enhancements observed at Earth is found to be Jupiter's magnetotail. If an average solar wind speed of 400 km sec-1 is assumed, the main region of emission extends from ~1.0 AU downstream from Jupiter to ~2.0 AU beyond the planet. (If a value of 350 km sec-1 is assumed, it extends from ~0.4 AU to ~1.2 AU.) Individual ''active'' zones are ~0.2 AU in length. It is proposed that interplanetary magnetic field line connection with the tail is the mechanism providing the Jovian electrons observed at Earth.

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