Spheroidal models of magnetic clouds and their comparison with spacecraft measurements

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Jul 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9811467v&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A7, p. 11,467-11,475.

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Astronomical Models, Lines Of Force, Magnetic Clouds, Magnetic Field Configurations, Satellite Sounding, Solar Wind, Bessel Functions, Boundary Value Problems, Plasma Bubbles

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We present here magnetic force-free solutions for spherical, oblate, and prolate clouds and show their magnetic field configurations. It is shown that spheroidal models can fit observed clouds as well as the cylindrical model. The spherical model is free of the limitation of the cylindrical model that allows only reduced increase of the magnetic field to twice that of the boundary value following from properties of the Bessel functions. For the tested cases, the cloud diameters following from the fit are generally larger for the spherical model than for the cylindrical one. An analysis of 14 cases shows that the fit using the spherical model is of a comparable accuracy in comparison with the cylindrical model. Generally, no exact determination of the cloud boundaries has been given up to now. We try to estimate cloud boundaries from the plasma data as an independent check, and compare them with cloud boundaries following from models of magnetic clouds. The boundaries given by the spheroidal models are near irregular temperature increases, and we suggest taking these increases as a possible indicator of the cloud physical boundaries.

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