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Dust motion in Jupiter's tilted magnetic field
Authors:L Schaffer  JA Burns
Institution:Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Abstract:We outline an analytical method for studying the motion of charged dust particles that orbit an oblate planet having a tilted, offset, dipolar magnetic field. Our computed trajectories closely mimic previous numerical results; equilibrium dust potentials must be less then 10 volts or the Jovian ring would be thicker than observed. We identify several Lorentz resonances, where the periods of components of the Lorentz force, as seen by a reference particle moving in the equatorial plane, match the particle's orbital period; several seem to be near observed features of the Jovian ring system.
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