Response of the dawn-side, high-altitude, high-latitude magnetosphere to the arrival of an interplanetary shockwave
| Autor: | M. Wüest, W. Lennartsson, Paul D. Craven |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Physics
Shock wave Atmospheric Science Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Aerospace Engineering Magnetosphere Astronomy and Astrophysics Atmospheric sciences Computational physics Solar wind Geophysics Magnetosheath Polar wind Space and Planetary Science Physics::Space Physics Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics General Earth and Planetary Sciences Magnetopause Magnetosphere of Jupiter Interplanetary spaceflight |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Space Research. 30:2189-2194 |
| ISSN: | 0273-1177 |
| Popis: | We investigate in detail the magnetospheric response observed with instruments on the Polar spacecraft during the arrival of a shock wave on January 10, 1997 at 0105 UT. Magnetic field increases have been observed in the solar wind, the magnetosheath, at the Polar location and on the ground. Particle density increases have been observed in the solar wind, the magnetosheath, but not at the position of the Polar spacecraft. Due to the compression of the magnetosphere we also would have expected a particle density increase, but in fact, a small particle density decrease was observed with low and medium energy particle instruments. The effect is attributed to an electric field pulse that convects downflowing particles onto another trajectory. Polar was located at that time at 8.4 Re, 6.1 MLT and 61.1 MLAT. |
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