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1.6 Thesis Overview

The following two chapters present the information necessary to set up the physical and geometrical picture of this work. Chapter 2 covers single particle theory, adiabatic theory, loss cones, parallel and corotational electric fields, and pitch angle scattering. Chapter 3 covers the Galileo spacecraft, the EPD instrument, and coordinate systems. Once the support material is established, Chapter 4 presents the magnetic field modeling involved in defining model M1 and model M2. Chapter 5 presents the numerical procedure of time reversed particle following and the method of calculating rate profiles from the resulting trajectories. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 present the results of the time reversed particle following for the G2 encounter with and without scattering and electric fields. Chapter 8 presents the discussion and conclusions based on the results in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 for the G2 encounter, and Appendix B for the G7 encounter.

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