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Magnetopause Thickness at the Dawn and Dusk Flanks

2017; American Geophysical Union; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/9781119216346.ch7

2328-8779

Johan De Keyser, Lukas Maes, Romain Maggiolo, S. Haaland,

Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies

This paper examines how the magnetic field rotation across the magnetopause influences the fine structure of the layer and its thickness. The situation is examined at noon, dawn, and dusk using a one-dimensional kinetic Vlasov-Maxwell model. The findings indicate that intrinsic physical properties of the Chapman-Ferraro layer may play a role in creating a dawn-dusk asymmetry in the magnetopause thickness.