Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsm44a..01s&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM44A-01
Physics
Plasma Physics
[7811] Space Plasma Physics / Discontinuities
Scientific paper
Many of the most important and intriguing phenomena in a space plasma occur at the boundaries between regions containing plasmas of different thermodynamic and flow properties, and different magnetization. In this lecture, I will describe and discuss a few of the observed effects and their proposed interpretations, with emphasis on the earth’s magnetopause as well as on certain magnetic discontinuities and structures seen in the solar wind. Among the physical phenomena is magnetic reconnection and associated current filamentation, as well as Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and waves. A primary tool for the illustration and interpretation of local structure within and near these boundaries will be reconstruction based on various versions of the MHD equations. These new methods produce field/flow maps in two dimensions of a narrow region of space surrounding the path of an observing spacecraft as it passes through the structure.
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