Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989georl..16.1249m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 16, Nov. 1989, p. 1249-1252. Research supported by Polska Akademia Nauk.
Physics
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Geomagnetic Tail, High Temperature Plasmas, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Solar Wind, International Sun Earth Explorers, Solar System
Scientific paper
The magnetotail model of Grzedzielski and Macek (1988) is extended to great distances in the antisolar direction. For typical solar wind parameters at 1 AU and the most probable set of parameters of the model as determined for the ISEE-3 region of 200 earth radii, R(E), the open geotail extends to at least 3000 - 4000 R(E) downstream from earth, where it forms a cavity filled with a dense hot plasma and low magnetic field strengths. The cross section of this cavity in the plane perpendicular to the earth-sun line has dimensions of 300 - 400 R(E) parallel to the ecliptic plane, but only 5 R(E) in the direction normal to the ecliptic. It seems likely that the magnetotail would become filamentary at such distances.
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