Entry of Solar Wind Plasma into the Magnetosphere
Abstract
Measurements conducted by the Heos satellite in the distant polar cusp region are considered, taking into account instrumentation, a plasma layer inside the dayside magnetopause, the magnetic field and plasma flow at the magnetopause, and the shape of the magnetopause. Attention is given to the formation of the entry layer and the currents and convection in the polar cusp region.
- Publication:
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Physics of the Hot Plasma in the Magnetosphere
- Pub Date:
- 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975phpm.symp...23H
- Keywords:
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- Heos Satellites;
- Magnetospheric Proton Density;
- Plasma Layers;
- Polar Regions;
- Solar Wind;
- Convective Flow;
- Current Density;
- Dynamo Theory;
- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Magnetopause;
- Proton Energy;
- Temperature Effects;
- Geophysics