Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984jgr....89.2169v&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 89, April 1, 1984, p. 2169-2179.
Physics
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Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Configurations, Plasma Layers, Space Plasmas, Mathematical Models, Neutral Sheets, Plasma Equilibrium, Position (Location), Radiation Pressure, Shapes, Solar Wind, Topology
Scientific paper
A three-dimensional magnetospheric B field model having its basis in the concept that thermal plasma, tail currents, and magnetic field are to be in magnetohydrostatic equilibrium during periods of magnetically quiet conditions, is presently applied to the configuration of the tail plasma sheet in the earth's magnetotail. Consequences for the plasma sheet configuration with respect to the assumed tail magnetopause shape and separation method include, during the Northern Hemisphere summer, a raising of the neutral sheet above the magnetospheric equatorial plane around local midnight. The sheet then crosses this plane, and is depressed below it, near the flanks of the tail. This result is in qualitative agreement with Fairfield's (1980) empirical neutral sheet model, which was derived from spacecraft measurements of the tail field polarity.
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