Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978jatp...40..323r&link_type=abstract
(European Geophysical Society, Symposium on the Earth's Magnetopause Regions, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept. 7-10, 1976.) Journal
Physics
5
Discontinuity, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetopause, Atmospheric Models, Drift Rate, Earth Magnetosphere, Electric Potential, Electromagnetic Fields, Electromagnetic Properties, Satellite Observation, Transition Flow, Velocity Distribution
Scientific paper
A description of the nose region of the magnetopause is attempted on the basis of a theoretical model of the magnetopause as a tangential discontinuity. The tangential discontinuity in the magnetic field is described in terms of a kinetic theory based on Maxwell's equations and Vlasov's equations for each particle species. With no electric potential difference between the two sides of the sheath in the nose region, computations show the existence of an electron-dominated layer where the electric current is carried mainly by electrons. This layer is unstable, so that the electrons become more isotropic and the layer broadens. True ion (or electron) layers are constructed by imposing a suitable electric potential difference between the two faces of the sheath in order to keep the electron (or ion) velocity distribution Maxwellian everywhere.
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