Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm53a1653s&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM53A-1653
Physics
2724 Magnetopause And Boundary Layers, 2728 Magnetosheath, 2731 Magnetosphere: Outer, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, 7526 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7835)
Scientific paper
The solar wind dynamic pressure is reduced when the solar wind flows around the magnetosphere due to the diversion of the flows. The magnetopause is the boundary where the reduced dynamic pressure is balanced with the magnetic pressure of the compressed magnetosphere by the solar wind. The size and shape of the magnetopause have long been considered among the most important parameters in Solar Terrestrial physics. Previous models of the size and shape of the magnetopause often assumed the axis- symmetry of the magnetopause with respect to the Sun-Earth line. With a large number of magnetopause crossings by ISEE-1 and -2, AMPTE/IRM, Hawkeye, Geotail, Interball-1, and Magion-4, we are able to consider the asymmetry of the magnetopuase. In the Shue et al. [1997] model, the magnetopause was modeled by two parameters, r0 and alpha, representing the subsolar standoff distance and the flaring level of the magnetopause, respectively. Parameter alpha was assumed to be independent of phi in the Shue et al. [1997] model, where phi is the angle between the Z axis and the mapping of the radial vector of the magnetopause on the YZ plane. In the present study we allow alpha to be a function of phi. We separate crossings with different phis and fit them in each bin to the new functional form proposed by Shue et al. [1997]. We find that the magnetopause is symmetric in the dawn-dusk direction for northward IMF. However, its size on the dawnside becomes larger when the IMF is southward. The function of alpha in terms of phi can be combined with the 2-D Shue et al. [1997] model into a 3-D magnetopause model. (Shue, J.-H., J. K. Chao, H. C. Fu, C. T. Russell, P. Song, K. K. Khurana, and H. J. Singer, A new functional form to study the solar wind control of the magnetopause size and shape, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 9497, 1997.)
Chen Shouxin
Jhuang B.
Nemecek Zdenek
Russell Christopher T.
Safrankova Jana
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