Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984jgr....89.1508w&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 89, March 1, 1984, p. 1508-1516.
Physics
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Collisionless Plasmas, Magnetopause, Particle Motion, Current Sheets, Mathematical Models, Vlasov Equations
Scientific paper
A simple plane model of the magnetopause is used to address the question of particle accessibility. Particle motion in the current sheet region is analyzed, showing that the concept of gyromotion is useful even when the electric and magnetic fields vary significantly over the gyroradius, as long as the variation is perpendicular to the drift direction. The first adiabatic invariant for particle motion is defined in such a way that it is preserved in regions of large field gradients, provided that the gradients are in a direction primarily perpendicular to the particle drifts. This generalized invariant provides an adiabatically conserved quantity that can be used to characterize particles as they move from a source region through the drift region and into the magnetopause itself, helping to resolve the accessibility question. Some preliminary results are given for the magnetopause structure based on the location of particle guiding points.
Hill Richard J.
Nichols Jonathan D.
Whipple Elden C.
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