Dimensionless parameters for classifying solar wind interactions

Details Dimensionless parameters for classifying solar wind interactions Dimensionless parameters for classifying solar wind interactions

Jan 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989plap.work...31v&link_type=abstract

In ESA, Proceedings of an International School and Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics, Volume 1 p 31-35(SEE N89-24910 18-75)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Dimensionless Numbers, Parameterization, Planetary Evolution, Planetary Magnetospheres, Plasma Interactions, Solar Wind, Astronomical Models, Auroras, Dipole Moments, Gravitational Effects, Heliosphere, Plasma Diagnostics, Solar Terrestrial Interactions

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For a systematic comparison of the various observed magnetospheres and related systems, their basic parameters are expressed in dimenionless, unit-independent form. The planetary magnetic dipole moment and the internal plasma source strength, recast as dimensionless variables, provide a unified overview of solar wind interactions with a variety of objects from strongly magnetic planets to comets. The radius of a planet has little significance for the magnetosphere in general, but a magnetosphere large compared to the planet may be needed in order to concentrate currents sufficiently to trigger auroral acceleration. A dimensionless measure of gravitational effects shows that they are important in magnetospheres of distant astrophysical objects but unimportant in magnetospheres within the present-day solar system; magnetospheres, if any, during the formative phases of the solar system must therefore have been qualitatively different.

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