Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsm51b1812d&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM51B-1812
Physics
Plasma Physics
[2724] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetopause And Boundary Layers, [2784] Magnetospheric Physics / Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, [7835] Space Plasma Physics / Magnetic Reconnection
Scientific paper
We are developing a model at Jupiter based on the Cooling model of reconnected flux tube motion on Earth’s magnetopause. (Cooling et al, JGR 106, 2001) Our model will test for possible reconnection sites at the magnetopause and map the subsequent flux tube motion. We have begun this study by mapping out the Khurana magnetic field (which includes a plasma sheet, radial currents, and magnetopause currents) at the magnetopause boundary. (Khurana and Schwarzl, JGR 110, 2005) Using MHD simulations of the solar wind flow near Jupiter, (Walker et al, Planet. Space Sci. 49, 2001) we apply a gas-dynamic convection model to determine the draping of the IMF on the magnetopause, for several likely field orientations. By considering the shear angle and strengths of the magnetic fields on either side of the magnetopause, as well as the shear velocity across the boundary, we are able to conclude where on the magnetopause reconnection is likely to be viable.
Bagenal Fran
Delamere Peter A.
Desroche M. J.
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