Wave and particle properties of the subsolar magnetopause
Creators
- 1. USAF, Geophysics Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA (USA)
- 2. MIT, Cambridge (USA)
- 3. MIT, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Description
The present characterization of the subsolar magnetopause as the interface between two magnetized thermal plasmas proceeds by conducting a variety of measurements for the cases in which the magnetic fields on both sides of the interface were parallel and antiparallel, or when the IMF was northward and southward. While in the parallel-field case the magnetopause was composed of a sheath transition layer and two boundary layers, separated by sharp boundaries, and with linearly polarized transverse waves near the ion gyrofrequencies in the sheath transition layer, the antiparallel field case was characterized by a magnetopause composed of a sheath transition layer and a boundary layer; both ion cyclotron waves and EM waves up to the electron gyrofrequency were present in the sheath-transition layer. 16 refs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Scientific Publishers, Inc. (SPI Conference Proceedings and Reprint Series, No. 9).
- Imprint Place
- Cambridge, MA (USA)
- Imprint Title
- Physics of space plasmas (1989)
- Imprint Pagination
- 13 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 463-476.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22080245
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INTERFACES; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; ION WAVES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOPAUSE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA WAVES; SOLAR WIND
- Descriptors DEC
- LAYERS; RADIATIONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; STELLAR ACTIVITY; STELLAR WINDS