Solar wind energy transfer through the magnetopause of an open magnetosphere

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.1439l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Mar. 1, 1982, p. 1439-1444.

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Energy Transfer, Magnetopause, Magnetospheric Instability, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Geomagnetic Tail, Incident Radiation, Kinetic Energy, Mach Number, Particle Motion

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An expression is derived for the total power, transferred from the solar wind to an open magnetosphere, which consists of the electromagnetic energy rate and the particle kinetic energy rate. The total rate of energy transferred from the solar wind to an open magnetosphere mainly consists of kinetic energy, and the kinetic energy flux is carried by particles, penetrating from the solar wind into the magnetosphere, which may contribute to the observed flow in the plasma mantle and which will eventually be convected slowly toward the plasma sheet by the electric field as they flow down the tail. While the electromagnetic energy rate controls the near-earth magnetospheric activity, the kinetic energy rate should dominate the dynamics of the distant magnetotail.

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