Interplanetary gas. XXVIII - A study of the three-dimensional properties of interplanetary sector boundaries using disconnection events in cometary plasma tails

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Jan 1982

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Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 48, Jan. 1982, p. 1-50.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Comet Tails, Interplanetary Gas, Plasma Dynamics, Three Dimensional Motion, Astronomical Models, Boundaries, Equatorial Atmosphere, Geomagnetism, Neutral Sheets, Solar Cycles, Solar Wind Velocity

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Studies of the solar wind on the basis of cometary plasma tail observations are considered. Niedner and Brandt (1978, 1979) have concluded that the plasma tail frequently disconnects from the cometary head, and that these disconnection events (DEs) are produced by magnetic reconnection at sector boundary passages. They proposed that the disconnections are a natural combination of Alfven's model and the solar-wind sector structure first discovered by Wilcox and Ness (1965). The DEs can be utilized as probes of interplanetary sector structure. Correlations between DEs and sector boundaries observed at earth are considered, and sector boundary properties deduced from DEs are discussed. Attention is given to a review of the warped sheet model, the latitude extent of sector structure, the sector boundary tilt, and specific sources of error in the tilt angles derived from DEs.

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