Active current sheets near the earth's bow shock

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Oct 1988

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 93, Oct. 1, 1988, p. 11295-11310. Research supported by SERC and Nuffield

Physics

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Bow Waves, Current Sheets, Shock Waves, Space Plasmas, Ampte (Satellites), Flow Geometry, Magnetosheath, Plasma Diagnostics, Solar Wind, Uk Satellites

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This paper presents an investigation of 'active current sheets' observed by the AMPTE UK spacecraft near the earth's bow shock, concentrating on their macroscopic features and geometry. Events selected primarily by flow directions which deviate substantially from the sun-earth line show similar characteristics, including their association with an underlying macroscopic current sheet and a hot central region whose flow direction is organized, at least in part, by location relative to the inferred initial intersection point between the current sheet and the bow shock. This region is flanked by 'edges' which, according to a Rankine-Hugoniot analysis, are often fast shocks whose orientation is consistent with that expected if a 'bulge' on the bow shock convected past the spacecraft. The magnetosheath manifestations of these events were found, and they are studied in detail. It is suggested that these events are the direct result of the disruption and reformation of the bow shock by the passage of an interplanetary current sheet, most probably a tangential discontinuity.

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