Analytical configurations of a force-free magnetic cylinder in the solar wind

Autor: O. V. Mingalev, Igor V. Mingalev, Maxim Khodachenko, Igor Mingalev, Victor Mingalev
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. 49:574-581
ISSN: 1555-645X
0016-7932
DOI: 10.1134/s0016793209050041
Popis: The problem of a smooth field configuration, which should be an initial configuration in modeling (using the method of coarse particles) the problem of a stationary solar wind flow around a magnetic cloud in the case of a spatially two-dimensional statement (when a magnetic cloud is considered as a force-free magnetic cylinder with a finite radius) is considered. It has been indicated that such a statement is possible only when the magnetic field in the solar wind is parallel to the cylinder axis. The method for finding the magnetic field of a force-free cylinder with a finite radius, when some field component is specified and another component is determined based on this one (which makes it possible to construct fields with preassigned properties), has been proposed. The variant for constructing the initial field configuration in the transition region around a cylinder has been proposed. This variant makes it possible to gradually pass from homogeneous crossed fields in the solar wind to a force-free magnetic and zero electric fields within a cylinder, an electric field being potential and orthogonal to a magnetic field (in the reference system related to a magnetic cloud).
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