Effects Of Pressure Anisotropy On The Magnetic Field In The Inner Magnetosphere

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Dec 2007

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SM33B-1337

Physics

2700 Magnetospheric Physics (6939), 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner

Scientific paper

We present results from a version of an equilibrium solver that has been modified to include the effects of anisotropic pressure. The equilibrium solver uses a frictional technique to iterate a set of modified MHD equations to equilibrium. The initial pressure distribution is determined from an empirical model of Lui et al [1994] that specifies the pressure anisotropy as a function of position in the tail. In this model, the region beyond approximately 15 Re is assumed to have isotropic pressure, consistent with observations. The initial magnetic field is a Tsyganenko [1989] magnetic field model. For various magnetospheric conditions, we will display the differences between the resulting anisotropic-equilibrium magnetic field and an equilibrium computed from the isotropic version of the code for the same total thermal energy.

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