Is the magnetosphere a lens for MHD waves?

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Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.2809p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 24, p. 2809-2812

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomical Models, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Lenses, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Flux Density, Magnetic Dipoles, Neutral Currents, Wave Propagation

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A viewpoint of the magnetosphere as a lens for MHD waves is presented. Using a simple model of the variation of the Alfven speed as proportional to the local magnetic value given by the Earth's dipole field and that due to the magnetopause currents represented by a current loop, it is found that the near-Earth magnetotail, in the range 8-16 R(sub E), is the focus of the magnetospheric lens. This location is found to be quite insensitive to a wide variation of parameters. By using simple diffraction theory analysis it is found that the focal region extends about 1 R(sub E) about the neutral sheet in the north-south plane and 0.2 - 0.5 R(sub E) along the Sun-Earth line. Compressive MHD waves carried by the solar wind or created by the interaction of the wind with the magnetopause can be amplified by a factor of about 100 in the focal region and this has potentially important implications to substorm activity.

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