Magnetic field line draping in the plasma depletion layer

Details Magnetic field line draping in the plasma depletion layer Magnetic field line draping in the plasma depletion layer

Mar 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....95.2433s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, March 1, 1990, p. 2433-2440.

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Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Fields, Magnetosheath, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Flux Transfer Events, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Magnetopause, Plasma Sheaths

Scientific paper

Simultaneous IMP 8 solar wind and ISEE 1/2 observations for a northern dawn ISEE 1/2 magnetopause crossing on November 6, 1977. During this crossing, ISEE 1/2 observed quasi-periodic pulses of magnetosheathlike plasma on northward magnetic field lines. The ISEE 1/2 observations were originally interpreted as evidence for strong diffusion of magnetosheath plasma across the magnetopause and the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the inner edge of the low-latitude boundary layer. An alternate explanation, in terms of magnetic field merging and flux transfer events, has also been advocated. In this paper, a third interpretation is proposed in terms of quasi-periodic magnetopause motion which causes the satellites to repeatedly exit the magnetosphere and observe draped northward magnetosheath magnetic field lines in the plasma depletion layer.

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