Plasma transport through magnetic boundaries

Details Plasma transport through magnetic boundaries Plasma transport through magnetic boundaries

Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992esasp.346..115t&link_type=abstract

In ESA, Study of the Solar-Terrestrial System p 115-125 (SEE N93-31674 12-90)

Physics

Boundary Layer Transition, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Magnetopause, Plasma Diffusion, Plasmas (Physics), Tropical Regions, Turbulent Diffusion

Scientific paper

The overall plasma diffusion processes across tangential discontinuities, of which the best known example is the Earth's magnetopause during northward interplanetary magnetic field conditions, are examined. The existence of the Low Latitude Boundary Layer (LLBL) adjacent to the magnetopause during those periods is ample evidence for the presence of entry processes acting at the magnetopause. It is concluded that microscopic instabilities are probably not efficient enough to account for the LLBL. They affect only a small number of resonant particles. It is argued that macroscopic nonresonant turbulence is the most probable mechanism for plasma transport.

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