Magnetopause shapes - General solutions

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Nov 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977jgr....82.5181m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 82, Nov. 1, 1977, p. 5181-5186.

Physics

Discontinuity, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetopause, Integral Equations, Magnetic Dipoles, Shapes, Variational Principles

Scientific paper

The problem of determining the shape of a magnetopause, namely, the tangential discontinuity separating (typically) the magnetic field of a source from external plasma, is reduced to solving an integral equation. No symmetry assumptions whatsoever are used in the derivation, consequently, realistic problems such as model shapes for the earth's magnetosphere (tilted dipole, flowing plasma, etc.) can in principle be treated. Moreover, the magnetic field source itself need not be a simple dipole. A variational method is suggested whereby the optimum parameters for any finite term trial shape are obtained.

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