Analytical Description of the Near Planetary Bow Shock Based on Gas-Dynamic and Magneto-Gas–Dynamic Modeling for the Magnetic Field Parallel and Perpendicular to the Plasma Flow

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. A. Kotova ◽  
M. I. Verigin ◽  
T. Gombosi ◽  
K. Kabin ◽  
V. V. Bezrukikh
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S354) ◽  
pp. 268-279
Author(s):  
Dmitry V. Bisikalo ◽  
Andrey G. Zhilkin

AbstractHot Jupiters have extended gaseous (ionospheric) envelopes, which extend far beyond the Roche lobe. The envelopes are loosely bound to the planet and, therefore, are strongly influenced by fluctuations of the stellar wind. We show that, since hot Jupiters are close to the parent stars, magnetic field of the stellar wind is an important factor defining the structure of their magnetospheres. For a typical hot Jupiter, velocity of the stellar wind plasma flow around the atmosphere is close to the Alfvén velocity. As a result stellar wind fluctuations, such as coronal mass ejections, can affect the conditions for the formation of a bow shock around a hot Jupiter. This effect can affect observational manifestations of hot Jupiters.


1984 ◽  
Vol 89 (A5) ◽  
pp. 2997 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. T. Russell ◽  
J. G. Luhmann ◽  
J. R. Spreiter ◽  
S. S. Stahara

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Gunell ◽  
Maria Hamrin ◽  
Oleksandr Goncharov ◽  
Alexandre De Spiegeleer ◽  
Stephen Fuselier ◽  
...  

<p>Can reconnection be triggered as a directional discontinuity (DD) crosses the bow shock? Here we present some unique observations of asymmetric reconnection at a quasi-perpendicular bow shock as an interplanetary DD is crossing it simultaneously with the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The data show indications of ongoing reconnection at the bow shock southward of the spacecraft. The DD is also observed by several upstream spacecraft (ACE, WIND, Geotail, and THEMIS B) and one downstream in the magnetosheath (Cluster 4), but none of them resolve signatures of ongoing reconnection. We therefore suggest that reconnection was temporarily triggered as the DD was compressed by the shock. Bow shock reconnection is inevitably asymmetric with both the density and the magnetic field strength being higher on one side of the X-line (the magneosheath side) than on the other side where the plasma flow also is supersonic (the solar wind side). Asymmetric reconnection of the bow shock type has never been studied before, and the data discussed here are hence unique.</p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Artemyev ◽  
A. I. Neishtadt ◽  
L. M. Zelenyi

Abstract. We present a theory of trapped ion motion in the magnetotail current sheet with a constant dawn–dusk component of the magnetic field. Particle trajectories are described analytically using the quasi-adiabatic invariant corresponding to averaging of fast oscillations around the tangential component of the magnetic field. We consider particle dynamics in the quasi-adiabatic approximation and demonstrate that the principal role is played by large (so called geometrical) jumps of the quasi-adiabatic invariant. These jumps appear due to the current sheet asymmetry related to the presence of the dawn–dusk magnetic field. The analytical description is compared with results of numerical integration. We show that there are four possible regimes of particle motion. Each regime is characterized by certain ranges of values of the dawn–dusk magnetic field and particle energy. We find the critical value of the dawn–dusk magnetic field, where jumps of the quasi-adiabatic invariant vanish.


2018 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 03003
Author(s):  
Polya Dobreva ◽  
Monio Kartalev ◽  
Olga Nitcheva ◽  
Natalia Borodkova ◽  
Georgy Zastenker

We investigate the behaviour of the plasma parameters in the magnetosheath in a case when Interball-1 satellite stayed in the magnetosheath, crossing the tail magnetopause. In our analysis we apply the numerical magnetosheath-magnetosphere model as a theoretical tool. The bow shock and the magnetopause are self-consistently determined in the process of the solution. The flow in the magnetosheath is governed by the Euler equations of compressible ideal gas. The magnetic field in the magnetosphere is calculated by a variant of the Tsyganenko model, modified to account for an asymmetric magnetopause. Also, the magnetopause currents in Tsyganenko model are replaced by numericaly calulated ones. Measurements from WIND spacecraft are used as a solar wind monitor. The results demonstrate a good agreement between the model-calculated and measured values of the parameters under investigation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 775-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. N. Mitrofanov ◽  
S. S. Anan’ev ◽  
D. A. Voitenko ◽  
V. I. Krauz ◽  
G. I. Astapenko ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 785-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kis ◽  
M. Scholer ◽  
B. Klecker ◽  
H. Kucharek ◽  
E. A. Lucek ◽  
...  

Abstract. Field-aligned beams are known to originate from the quasi-perpendicular side of the Earth's bow shock, while the diffuse ion population consists of accelerated ions at the quasi-parallel side of the bow shock. The two distinct ion populations show typical characteristics in their velocity space distributions. By using particle and magnetic field measurements from one Cluster spacecraft we present a case study when the two ion populations are observed simultaneously in the foreshock region during a high Mach number, high solar wind velocity event. We present the spatial-temporal evolution of the field-aligned beam ion distribution in front of the Earth's bow shock, focusing on the processes in the deep foreshock region, i.e. on the quasi-parallel side. Our analysis demonstrates that the scattering of field-aligned beam (FAB) ions combined with convection by the solar wind results in the presence of lower-energy, toroidal gyrating ions at positions deeper in the foreshock region which are magnetically connected to the quasi-parallel bow shock. The gyrating ions are superposed onto a higher energy diffuse ion population. It is suggested that the toroidal gyrating ion population observed deep in the foreshock region has its origins in the FAB and that its characteristics are correlated with its distance from the FAB, but is independent on distance to the bow shock along the magnetic field.


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