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Model Predictions of Magnetosheath Conditions [PDF]

, 2013
The magnetosheath and its two boundaries - the bow shock and the magnetopause - interface the magnetosphere with the solar wind. This interface specifies the upstream conditions for magnetospheric models. Major progress has been made in the last few years in specifying the magnetosheath conditions. The classical Spreiter magnetosheath model is modified
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Turbulence in Three-Dimensional Simulations of Magnetopause Reconnection

, 2017
We present detailed analysis of the turbulence observed in three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause.
Burch, J. L., Cassak, P. A., Drake, J. F., Ergun, R. E., Price, L., Swisdak, M.   +5 more
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Thick escaping magnetospheric ion layer in magnetopause reconnection with MMS observations

Geophysical Research Letters, 2016
The structure of asymmetric magnetopause reconnection is explored with multiple point and high‐time‐resolution ion velocity distribution observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission.
T. Nagai, N. Kitamura, H. Hasegawa, I. Shinohara, S. Yokota, Y. Saito, R. Nakamura, B. L. Giles, C. Pollock, T. E. Moore, J. C. Dorelli, D. J. Gershman, W. R. Paterson, L. A. Avanov, M. O. Chandler, V. Coffey, J. A. Sauvaud, B. Lavraud, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, M. Oka, K. J. Genestreti, J. L. Burch   +22 more
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On the collisionless asymmetric magnetic reconnection rate

, 2017
A prediction of the steady-state reconnection electric field in asymmetric reconnection is obtained by maximizing the reconnection rate as a function of the opening angle made by the upstream magnetic field on the weak magnetic field (magnetosheath) side.
Cassak, P. A., Chen, L. -J., Hesse, M., Liu, Yi-Hsin, Shay, M. A., Wang, S.   +5 more
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Kinetic evidence of magnetic reconnection due to Kelvin‐Helmholtz waves

Geophysical Research Letters, 2016
The Kelvin‐Helmholtz (KH) instability at the Earth's magnetopause is predominantly excited during northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Magnetic reconnection due to KH waves has been suggested as one of the mechanisms to transfer solar wind ...
W. Li, M. André, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, A. Vaivads, D. B. Graham, S. Toledo‐Redondo, C. Norgren, P. Henri, C. Wang, B. B. Tang, B. Lavraud, Y. Vernisse, D. L. Turner, J. Burch, R. Torbert, W. Magnes, C. T. Russell, J. B. Blake, B. Mauk, B. Giles, C. Pollock, J. Fennell, A. Jaynes, L. A. Avanov, J. C. Dorelli, D. J. Gershman, W. R. Paterson, Y. Saito, R. J. Strangeway   +28 more
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A case study of the plasma in the magneto-sheath using the numerical magnetosheath-magnetosphere model and THEMIS measure-ments

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
This paper presents a case study of the plasma parameters in the magnetosheath, based on THEMIS measurements. As a theoretical tool we apply the self-consistent magnetosheath-magnetosphere model.
Dobreva Polya, Nitcheva Olga, Kartalev Monio   +2 more
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Magnetosheath electrostatic turbulence [PDF]

The spectrum of electrostatic plasma waves in the terrestrial magnetosheath was studied using the plasma wave experiment on the IMP-6 satellite. Electrostatic plasma wave turbulence is almost continuously present throughout the magnetosheath with ...
Rodriquez, P.
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Anomalous aspects of magnetosheath flow and of the shape and oscillations of the magnetopause during an interval of strongly northward interplanetary magnetic field [PDF]

On 15 Feb. 1978, the orientation of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) remained steadily northward for more than 12 hours. The ISEE 1 and 2 spacecraft were located near apogee on the dawn side flank of the magnetotail. IMP 8 was almost symmetrically
Chen, Sheng-Hsien, Gosling, Jack T., Kivelson, Margaret G., Lazarus, Allan J., Walker, Raymond T.   +4 more
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Anisotropy of the Spectral Index in Ion Scale Compressible Turbulence: MMS Observations in the Magnetosheath

Frontiers in Physics, 2019
Turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath at ion kinetic scales is investigated with the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) spacecraft. The multi-point measurements allow the three dimensional power spectra in wave-vector space to be determined.
Owen Wyn Roberts, Yasuhito Narita, Rumi Nakamura, Zoltán Vörös, Daniel Gershman   +4 more
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Observations of energetic particle escape at the magnetopause: Early results from the MMS Energetic Ion Spectrometer (EIS)

Geophysical Research Letters, 2016
Energetic (greater than tens of keV) magnetospheric particle escape into the magnetosheath occurs commonly, irrespective of conditions that engender reconnection and boundary‐normal magnetic fields.
I. J. Cohen, B. H. Mauk, B. J. Anderson, J. H. Westlake, D. G. Sibeck, B. L. Giles, C. J. Pollock, D. L. Turner, J. F. Fennell, J. B. Blake, J. H. Clemmons, A. N. Jaynes, D. N. Baker, J. V. Craft, H. E. Spence, J. T. Niehof, G. D. Reeves, R. B. Torbert, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, W. Magnes, K. J. Trattner, S. A. Fuselier, J. L. Burch   +23 more
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