On the stress balance in flux transfer events

Details On the stress balance in flux transfer events On the stress balance in flux transfer events

Aug 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....92.8613s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, Aug. 1, 1987, p. 8613-8620.

Physics

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Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetic Flux, Magnetopause, Holes, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetosheath, Solar Wind

Scientific paper

A theoretical discussion is presented of aspects of the structure and dynamics of holes in the magnetopause through which magnetic flux connects the magnetosphere with the magnetosheath in the manner described in the Russell-Elphic model of flux transfer events. The model of a magnetopause hole is described, showing that holes of sufficiently small size are simply convected with ambient plasma flow. Larger holes may, under certain assumptions, exhibit motions relative to that plasma. For sufficiently large holes, the relative hole speed is predicted to approach that corresponding to steady state reconnection.

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