The particles trapped within the Uranian magnetosphere comprise protons and electrons, which

indicate that the planet’s upper atmosphere is supplying most of the material. There is no evidence of
helium, which might originate with the solar wind, or of heavier ions, which might come from the
Uranian moons. Because the largest Uranian moons orbit within the magnetosphere, they absorb some
of the trapped particles. The particles behave as if they were attached to the magnetic field lines, so that
those lines intersecting a moon in its orbit have fewer trapped particles than neighbouring field lines.

As is the case for Jupiter and Saturn, charged particles from the Uranian magnetosphere impinge on the
upper atmosphere and produce auroras. Auroral heating can just barely account for the high
temperature of Uranus’s exosphere (see above The atmosphere). One effect of the high temperature is
that the atmosphere expands outward into the region occupied by ring particles and, by increasing drag,
severely limits their orbital lifetime. This puts constraints on the age of the present material in the rings
(see below The ring system).

(Source: britannica.com)