Outer Magnetospheric Boundaries: Cluster Results. 1st ed. 2005

種類:

電子ブック

責任表示:

edited by Goetz Paschmann, Steven Schwartz, C.P. Escoubet, S. Haaland

出版情報:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005

著者名:

• Paschmann, Goetz.
• Schwartz, Steven.
• Escoubet, C.P.
• Haaland, S.
• SpringerLink (Online service)

シリーズ名:

Space Sciences Series of ISSI ; 20

ISBN:

9781402045820 [1402045824]    

注記:

Solar Wind, Foreshock, Magnetosheath -- The Near-Earth Solar Wind -- The Foreshock -- The Magnetosheath -- The Bow Shock -- Cluster at the Bow Shock: Introduction -- Quasi-perpendicular Shock Structure and Processes -- Quasi-parallel Shock Structure and Processes -- Cluster at the Bow Shock: Status and Outlook -- Magnetopause and CUSP -- Magnetopause and Boundary Layer -- Cluster at the Magnetospheric Cusps -- Magnetopause Processes.
When the stream of plasma emitted from the Sun (the solar wind) encounters Earth's magnetic field, it slows down and flows around it, leaving behind a cavity, the magnetosphere. The magnetopause is the surface that separates the solar wind on the outside from the Earth's magnetic field on the inside. Because the solar wind moves at supersonic speed, a bow shock must form ahead of the magnetopause that acts to slow the solar wind to subsonic speeds. Magnetopause, bow shock and their environs are rich in exciting processes in collisionless plasmas, such as shock formation, magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration and wave-particle interactions. They are interesting in their own right, as part of Earth's environment, but also because they are prototypes of similar structures and phenomena that are ubiquitous in the universe, having the unique advantage that they are accessible to in situ measurements. The boundaries of the magnetosphere have been the target of direct in-situ measurements since the beginning

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