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Session 8S - Space.
POSTER session, Thursday afternoon, November 14
Exhibit Hall - Concourse Level, Adam's Mark

[8S.18] Phase Synchronization for Clock Event in the Jovian Electron Radiation Belts.*

P.A. Bespalov, V.G. Efremova (Inst. for Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), V. Stefan (Tesla Laboratories, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92038)

This work deals with nonlinear time-dependent processes in the outer Jupiter's electron radiation belts. The cyclotron instability dynamics of a plasma magnetospheric maser are described by a relativistic system of quasilinear equations. This system takes into account the diffusion of particles in the adiabatic invariant space, the synchrotron losses, and the electromagnetic radiation evolution. Analysis shows the importance of the effect of global resonance, i.e., the oscillation eigen-frequencies of the radiation belt parameters are virtually independent on the magnetic shell and coincide with the planet's angular rotation velocity. Supported in part by Tesla Labs, Inc., La Jolla, CA 92038-2946. ^1Also with Tesla Labs, Inc., La Jolla CA 92038-2946.

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