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Siscoe, G.L., Crooker, N.U. and Belcher, J.W. (1980). Sunward flow in Jupiter’s magnetosheath. Geophysical Research Letters 7: doi: 10.1029/GL007i001p00025. issn: 0094-8276. |
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The position of Voyager crossings of Jupiter's bow shock show a dependence on solar wind pressure to the -1/3 power. This dependence is used to calculate typical bow shock speeds of 50 km/s from Voyager solar vind plasma data. Since the bow shock and magnetopause move approximately in union in response to solar wind pressure changes, the resulting movement of the magnetosheat at a sizeable fraction of the solar wind speed leads to reversed, sunward flow in large portions of the dayside region when the boundaries are expanding. Voyager 1 plasma data show evidence of such reversed flow. |
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