Reconstruction of two-dimensional structures in the magnetopause: Method improvements

Details Reconstruction of two-dimensional structures in the magnetopause: Method improvements Reconstruction of two-dimensional structures in the magnetopause: Method improvements

Jan 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003jgra..108.1011h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics), Volume 108, Issue A1, pp. SMP 9-1, CiteID 1011, DOI 10.1029/2002JA009323

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Plasma Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Numerical Modeling, Magnetospheric Physics: Instruments And Techniques, Space Plasma Physics: Discontinuities

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A recently developed method for recovering two-dimensional (∂/∂z ~ 0), time-stationary magnetic field structures in the magnetopause is improved and further applied to two complete magnetopause crossings by the spacecraft AMPTE/IRM. The technique consists of solving the Grad-Shafranov (GS) equation for magnetohydrostatic structures as a Cauchy problem, using measured data along a spacecraft trajectory through the structure as spatial initial values. We have implemented the following improvements: (1) allowing for different functional behavior of the transverse pressure, Pt = p + Bz2/2μ0, versus A, the calculated magnetic potential, on the magnetosphere and the magnetosheath side of the magnetopause; (2) allowing for change in the velocity of the magnetopause structures as they move past the spacecraft by using a time-varying deHoffmann-Teller (HT) frame velocity; (3) suppressing numerical instabilities and thus extending the integration domain by constraining the behavior of the total pressure. Results from two AMPTE/IRM events show layered and asymmetric structures on the two sides of the magnetopause owing to double-branched behavior in p(A) as well as Bz(A). A time-varying HT frame results in a curved spacecraft trajectory through the magnetopause. The reconstructed field structures show important changes in size but only slight changes in configuration. The use of a time-varying HT frame for determination of time-varying magnetopause motion is discussed.

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