Electric field measurements at the magnetopause. I Observation of large convective velocities at rotational magnetopause discontinuities

Details Electric field measurements at the magnetopause. I Observation of large convective velocities at rotational magnetopause discontinuities Electric field measurements at the magnetopause. I Observation of large convective velocities at rotational magnetopause discontinuities

Dec 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983jgr....8810000a&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 88, Dec. 1, 1983, p. 10000-10010.

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Convective Flow, Electric Fields, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetopause, Satellite Observation, Discontinuity, Earth Rotation, International Sun Earth Explorer 1

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Large convective electric fields of the order of 10 mV/m (sometimes as high as 22 mV/m) are observed at rotational magnetopause discontinuities. These observations were made with the long cylindrical (179-m base line) probes carried on the ISEE 1 satellite. These electric field observations yield convective velocity magnitudes (equal to the cross product of the vector E and the vector B, the latter divided by the square of the magnitude of B) of the order of 150 km/s. In this format for the convective velocity magnitudes, some of these observations are similar to the high speed plasma velocity observations that were made at the magnetopause with the plasma experiment carried on the ISEE 1 satellite. It is shown that, for many of these magnetopause crossings, there exists a special moving coordinate system where the observed electric fields vanish. Such a unique reference system is often used in theoretical studies of magnetic discontinuities. This special coordinate system does not move at the local plasma velocity but moves instead at a velocity intermediate between the convective velocity and the local Alfven velocity. It is used here as a diagnostic tool for the experimental investigation of rotational discontinuities at the magnetopause.

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