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Self-consistent model of a dipole-like magnetosphere with an azimuthal solar wind flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2004

ANATOLY S. LEONOVICH
Affiliation:
Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP), Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk 33, P.O. Box 4026, 664 033, Russia Russian–Chinese Joint Research Center on Space Weather
VITALY A. MAZUR
Affiliation:
Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP), Russian Academy of Science, Siberian Branch, Irkutsk 33, P.O. Box 4026, 664 033, Russia Russian–Chinese Joint Research Center on Space Weather
JIN BIN CAO
Affiliation:
Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Science, P.O. Box 8701, Beijing, China Russian–Chinese Joint Research Center on Space Weather

Abstract

We have constructed an analytical model for an axisymmetric magnetosphere with azimuthal plasma flow. A dipole-like model of the geomagnetic field was used. It is shown that within the framework of this model of the magnetosphere, plasma at each magnetic shell moves with a constant angular velocity. The possibility of formation of a twin plasmapause is demonstrated. Abrupt changes in plasma density are directed across magnetic shells separating regions with strongly differing plasma velocities, as well as on the cylindrical surface whose radius coincides with the equatorial radius of the plasmapause.

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Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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