The MIT plasma experiment on Voyager 1 shows that the plasma flow is not in strict co-rotation at distances greater than 10 jovian radii.
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McNutt, R., Belcher, J., Sullivan, J. et al. Departure from rigid co-rotation of plasma in Jupiter's dayside magnetosphere. Nature 280, 803 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280803a0
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