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Localized magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause leads to the production of Flux Transfer Events (FTEs). The magnetic field within the FTEs exhibit complex helical flux-rope topologies. Leveraging the Adaptive Mesh Refinement…

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Abstract: Assuming that the numerical diffusivity triggered by violations of the force-free electrodynamics constraints is a proxy for the physical resistivity, we examine its impact on the overall dynamics of force-free aligned pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 J. F. Mahlmann , M. A. Aloy

Using the geomagnetic storm of July 15, 2000 as an example, we investigated the dependence of GPS navigation system performance on the nightside at mid-latitudes on the level of geomagnetic disturbance. The investigation was based on the…

Mercury's magnetotail hosts a thin and highly dynamic current sheet (CS), where magnetic reconnection and strong fluctuations frequently occur. Here, we statistically analyze magnetic field power spectra across 370 magnetotail CSs observed…

When the magnetosphere of a magnetar is perturbed by crustal deformation, an electric field $E_\parallel$ parallel to the magnetic field line would appear via Alvf\'en waves in the charge starvation region. The electron-positron pair…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Yuan-Pei Yang , Jin-Ping Zhu , Bing Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu

The surface layers of the Sun are strongly stratified. In the presence of turbulence with a weak mean magnetic field, a large-scale instability resulting in the formation of non-uniform magnetic structures, can be excited over the scale of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 Illa R. Losada , A. Brandenburg , N. Kleeorin , Dhrubaditya Mitra , I. Rogachevskii

A planet's magnetosheath extends from downstream of its bow shock up to the magnetopause where the solar wind flow is deflected around the magnetosphere and the solar wind embedded magnetic field lines are draped. This makes the region an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 A. H. Sulaiman , A. Masters , M. K. Dougherty , X. Jia

The diversity of pulsar light-curves and radio polarisation properties originates in the structure of the magnetic field close to the stellar surface. For millisecond pulsars, this complexity is particularly puzzling. Fortunately, some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-22 J. Pétri , P. Stammler , L. Guillemot , S. Guillot , D. González-Caniulef , F. Jankowski , N. Webb

We examined soft X-ray emission by the solar wind charge-exchange process around the Earth's magnetosphere using a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation model. The dayside magnetopause reconnection heats and accelerates the plasma whereby…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Yosuke Matsumoto , Yoshizumi Miyoshi

Electron magnetohydrodynamic (EMHD) turbulence in two dimensions is studied via high-resolution numerical simulations with a normal diffusivity. The resulting energy spectra asymptotically approach a $k^{-5/2}$ law with increasing $R_B$,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-05-01 C. J. Wareing , R. Hollerbach

We present a complete characterization of stable, off-equatorial circular orbits around magnetically charged black holes (MBHs). For a static, spherically symmetric MBH, we derive an exact analytic expression for the orbital latitude theta…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-27 Xilai Li , Loris Del Grosso , David E. Kaplan

Context: The stellar wind and the interplanetary magnetic field modify the topology of planetary magnetospheres. Consequently, the hazardous effect of the direct exposition to the stellar wind, for example regarding the integrity of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-07 J. Varela , A. S. Brun , A. Strugarek , V. Reville , P. Zarka , F. Pantellini

This paper contains a presentation of analytical solution of the problem of calculating the places and moments of intersection of satellite trajectories with elements of the Earth's magnetosphere (bow shock and magnetopause). The satellite…

Space Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 Atanas Marinov Atanassov

The electronic structure of the neutral and singly charged Mg vacancy in MgO is investigated using density functional theory. For both defects, semilocal exchange correlation functionals such as the local spin density approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Droghetti , C. D. Pemmaraju , S. Sanvito

We report new 350 micron polarization observations of the thermal dust emission from the cores surrounding the low-mass, Class 0 YSOs L1527, IC348-SMM2 and B335. We have inferred magnetic field directions from these observations, and have…

The misalignment of the solar rotation axis and the magnetic axis of the Sun produces a periodic reversal of the Parker spiral magnetic field and the sectored solar wind. The compression of the sectors is expected to lead to reconnection in…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 J. F. Drake , M. Swisdak , M. Opher , J. D. Richardson

We perform a three-dimensional (3D) global simulation of Earth's magnetosphere with kinetic reconnection physics to study the flux transfer events (FTEs) and dayside magnetic reconnection with the recently developed magnetohydrodynamics…

An approximate analytical solution for the rotating twisted magnetosphere of magnetars is presented. The poloidal flux is approximated by the self-similar twisted dipole field. The toroidal field is obtained by the minimum torque model.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 H. Tong , L. Chen

Besides their own intrinsic interest, correct interpretation of solar surface magnetic field observations is crucial to our ability to describe the global magnetic structure of the solar atmosphere. Photospheric magnetograms are often used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-29 Gordon J. D. Petrie , Irina Patrikeeva

Here we present an event where simultaneous global imaging of the aurora from both hemispheres reveals a large longitudinal shift of the nightside aurora of about 3 h, being the largest relative shift reported on from conjugate auroral…