Can random reconnection on the magnetopause produce the low latitude boundary layer?

Details Can random reconnection on the magnetopause produce the low latitude boundary layer? Can random reconnection on the magnetopause produce the low latitude boundary layer?

Mar 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989georl..16..227n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 16, March 1989, p. 227-230.

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Geomagnetism, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetopause, Planetary Boundary Layer, Random Processes, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Plasma Dynamics, Solar Wind, Space Plasmas

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Consequences of the reconnection that occurs randomly on the dayside magnetopause are considered. Open field lines produced by such reconnection events often intersect with each other, and they do not necessarily show some of the features that would be expected from the reconnection if this mutual interaction were absent. Some of the randomly produced open field lines would rereconnect and result in closed field lines. The solar wind plasma streams into the magnetosphere along these field lines as long as they are open, however, and stays there after the field lines become closed again. It is proposed that this is the mechanism of the plasma supply into the low-latitude boundary layer. It is shown that many of the observed signatures of the low-latitude boundary layer are consistent with this model.

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