Solar wind plasma processing in the magnetosheath at low Mach numbers

Details Solar wind plasma processing in the magnetosheath at low Mach numbers Solar wind plasma processing in the magnetosheath at low Mach numbers

Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm53b..05l&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM53B-05

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2164 Solar Wind Plasma, 2728 Magnetosheath, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, 7859 Transport Processes, 7900 Space Weather

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We illustrate alterations of the magnetosheath properties that occur during low Mach number solar wind. The key properties that we will discuss include: (1) the bow shock compression ratio and downstream magnetosheath plasma Beta, (2) changes in magnetosheath flows with asymmetric patterns (and substantial accelerations), and (2) the resulting asymmetric magnetopause and magnetotail shapes. We illustrate these phenomena primarily by use of global magneto-hydrodynamic simulations and discuss the mechanisms that determine these properties. We further emphasize the fact that these and other related effects tend to occur simultaneously, and typically during CME-driven storms at Earth, so as to render the solar wind - magnetosphere interaction drastically different from the more typical high Mach number case.

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