The transformation of magnetoacoustic waves into Alfven waves inside the magnetosphere

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Nov 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994angeo..12.1022k&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae (ISSN 0992-7689), vol. 12, no. 10-11, p. 1022-1026

Mathematics

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Compression Waves, Earth Magnetosphere, Field Aligned Currents, Magnetoacoustic Waves, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Plasmas (Physics), Solar Wind, Equations Of Motion, Magnetic Fields, Transformations (Mathematics)

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A mechanism for the transformation of a magnetoacoustic wave into an Alfven wave is proposed. During the compression of the magnetosphere by the solar wind the inner edge of the plasma sheet and the contours of B = const move in different ways. In the case of asymmetrical compression, the contours of B = const will cross the inner edge of the plasma sheet. To close the drift currents - that flow in the plasma sheet along the contours of B = const - the appearance of the field-aligned currents is necessary. This appearance corresponds to the generation of the Alfven wave.

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