Partial penetration of IMF B sub y into the magnetosphere

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Nov 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985p%26ss...33.1327p&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 33, Nov. 1985, p. 1327-1330.

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Earth Magnetosphere, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Disturbances, Penetration

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Recent observations of partial penetration of the IMF B sub y into the magnetosphere (Fairfield, 1979; Cowley and Hughes, 1983) are shown to agree with the idea of a magnetopause current K sub y induced by IMF B sub y (Primdahl and Spangslev, 1983). The slow decay of K sub y caused by Joule heat losses in the cusp ionospheres is responsible for the appearance (on the average) of a fraction of IMF B sub y inside the magnetosphere, and this also explains the large statistical scatter of the data. A decay time constant of 4-5 days is derived from the average fraction of IMF B sub y observed inside the magnetosphere in good agreement with the 7-day time constant previously proposed.

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