Magnetic field properties of the distant magnetotail magnetopause and boundary layer

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Oct 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgr....90.9561s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, Oct. 1, 1985, p. 9561-9575. NASA-DOE-supported research.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Boundary Layer Plasmas, Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetopause, Space Plasmas, Astronomical Models, International Sun Earth Explorers, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetosheath

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Models incorporating merging between dayside magnetosheath and magnetosphere field lines predict the location of the magnetotail boundary layer and bending of magnetotail field lines in the direction of the IMF. Previous observations supporting these models are reviewed, and a case of dense magnetotail boundary layer plasma and strongly bent field lines observed by ISEE 3 is examined. Observations of boundary layer plasma within a tangential discontinuity magnetopause are discussed. The model to explain this phenomenon requires that interconnected magnetotail and magnetosheath field lines leave the magnetotail via a narrow 'window'. Field lines in the dense boundary layer plasma veer away from the aberrated x axis more than those in the void magnetotail lobes in order to pass through the windows. Magnetosheath plasma must enter the magnetotail lobes through the windows at all downstream distances in order to supply he observed tailward flux of lobe plasma.

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