Shape of the magnetosphere

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Jul 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983georl..10..545w&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 10, July 1983, p. 545-548.

Physics

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Current Sheets, Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetopause, Mathematical Models, Current Distribution, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma Interactions, Solar Wind

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The shape of the magnetosphere has been studied by using a global MHD model of the magnetosphere. It is found that MHD and the Chapman-Ferraro models agree in total magnetopause current distributions, but that the MHD model presents a very different physical picture from that of the Chapman-Ferraro model. In the MHD model with BIMF = 0 or northward, the cusp is not exposed directly to the solar wind because the dayside magnetic field lines drape around the nightside magnetosphere. Furthermore, in the MHD model a current sheet exists above the cusp region.

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