Updated Models of Current Sheet and Magnetic Field in the Jovian
Magnetosphere for Pre-Galileo, Galileo and Juno Eras
Abstract
In Jupiter’s magnetosphere, an electric current system within the
‘current sheet’ generates a magnetic field, which is comparable to or
dominating the Jovian intrinsic field in the magnetosphere. However,
update of an existing model of the magnetospheric field by Khurana
(1997) using newly acquired data by Galileo and Juno has never been
conducted since it was first formulated. Here we used the data by
Voyager 1/2, Galileo and Juno to revise the current sheet shape model as
well as the magnetospheric field model based on each spacecraft data. We
derived fits that reproduced each data well, and revealed long-term
variations of both current sheet and magnetospheric field over several
decades. The updated models could be useful for detecting dynamic events
in the magnetosphere such as magnetopause deformation and plasmoid
generation. They can also be used as external fields necessary for
probing into the Galilean icy moons by electromagnetic induction
methods.