Structure of the subsolar magnetopause on November 1, 1978, 1510-1530 UT: An effect of reconnection?

Details Structure of the subsolar magnetopause on November 1, 1978, 1510-1530 UT: An effect of reconnection? Structure of the subsolar magnetopause on November 1, 1978, 1510-1530 UT: An effect of reconnection?

Oct 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jgr...10019239p&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 100, Issue A10, p. 19239-19244

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection

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The terrestrial magnetopause region shows a big variety of different structures and properties depending on different situations, mainly in the free solar wind. In a recent paper, Song et al. (1993) reported a multi-instrument study on magnetopause parameters on November 1, 1978, 1510-1530 UT. We complement this descriptive study by examining this event in terms of a reconnection model. For doing this we use a shock-type reconnection model which allows for magnetic fields of arbitrary strength and skew and for arbitrary plasma flows on either side of the reconnection layer as well as for different densities. Thus we are able to model the magnetopause structure within a big parameter regime. We show that the entire sequence of regions and discontinuities detected on November 1, 1978, 1510-1530 UT, and reported by Song et al. (1993) agrees with the magnetopause structure predicted by our reconnection model. However, we point out that some features of the data need additional assumptions, which make the problem open for future study. .

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