Plasma dynamics in laboratory models of the magnetospheres of the earth and Uranus

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Atmospheric Models, Earth Atmosphere, Magnetohydrodynamics, Planetary Magnetospheres, Uranus (Planet), Collisionless Plasmas, Convective Flow, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Dipoles, Space Environment Simulation, Supersonic Flow, Three Dimensional Models

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A three-dimensional lab model of the magnetosphere was constructed on the basis of theoretical and experimental results on the interaction of a supersonic flow of collisionless plasma with a magnetic dipole field. For the earth magnetosphere, the velocity of the artificial solar wind was directed perpendicular to the axis of the dipole. The lab model has a magnetotail on the night side, with trapped particles (the radiation belt) within the field lines, and a collisionless shock wave at the boundary of the day side. It is suggested that the Uranus magnetosphere has a tubiform magnetotail. Consideration is given to the transition from a tubiform current sheet in the tail to a plane current sheet as the inclination of the dipole to the solar wind velocity vector varies from 0 to 90 deg.

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