Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26..429z&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 3, p. 429-432
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions
Scientific paper
Polar cusp crossings at high altitudes are seen in the POLAR data as decreases in the magnetic field and increases in magnetosheath-like plasma. Close to 500 polar cusp crossings identified from the magnetic field, low-energy electron and ion data observed by POLAR, are used to determine the statistical location of the polar cusp. When compared with Tsyganenko's 1989 vacuum model with an ellipsoidal magnetopause [Tsyganenko, 1989], the medians of the cusp crossings are located between the magnetic field lines with invariant latitudes of 80° and 82°. Statistically the shape of the polar cusp in this region is consistent with this model although there is much scatter around the median value. The position of the cusp is significantly dependent on the dipole tilt angle. When dipole tilts more toward the Sun, the cusp moves more poleward to higher invariant latitude from 77.2° at -30° tilt, to 80.0° at 0° tilt, to 81.8° at 30° or roughly 1° for every 14° of tilt.
Fuselier Stephen A.
Le Guan
Russell Christopher T.
Scudder Jack D.
Zhou X. W.
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