Kelvin-Helmholtz instability-driven magnetopause dynamics as turbulent pathway for the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling and the flank-central plasma sheet communication

Autor: Kyoung-Joo Hwang, Chih-Ping Wang, Katariina Nykyri, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Mark B. Tapley, James L. Burch, Stephen A. Fuselier, Jerry Goldstein, Kyunghwan Dokgo, Takuma Nakamura, Mikhail Sitnov, Xuanye Ma, Yu Lin, Xue Wang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
Předmět:
Zdroj: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Vol 10 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2296-987X
DOI: 10.3389/fspas.2023.1151869
Popis: About sixty years ago it was proposed that the solar wind entry and changes in magnetospheric magnetic topology via dayside magnetic reconnection initiate the magnetospheric convection over the poles. On the other hand, the quasi-viscous interaction via Kelvin-Helmholtz waves/vortices was proposed to lead to the solar wind entry and magnetospheric convection. Since then, the two processes have been thought to regulate the solar wind and earth’s magnetosphere coupling. However, their relative efficiency and importance leave a lot of room for enhanced and quantitative understanding. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability operating on the entire surface of the magnetopause also provide a place for not only solar wind transport but also energetic particle transport or escape, thus, being an efficient channel for two-way transport. Recent observations and simulations indicate that the flanks of the earth’s magnetosphere can act as a pathway to/from the central magnetotail current sheet. Possible causality between the flank-side dynamics and magnetotail current sheet stability has never been explored. In this paper we discuss our perspective on these unsolved areas of Heliophysics research with brief suggestions of observational and numerical approaches.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals