English
Related papers

Related papers: Impact Angle Control of Interplanetary Shock Geoef…

200 papers

Strong collisional shocks in multi-ion plasmas are featured in many environments, with Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments being one prominent example. Recent work [Keenan ${\it et \ al.}$, PRE ${\bf 96}$, 053203 (2017)] answered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Brett D. Keenan , Andrei N. Simakov , William T. Taitano , Luis Chacon

We gave an extensive study for the quasi-periodic perturbations on the time profiles of the line of sight (LOS) magnetic field in 10x10 sub-areas in a solar plage region (corresponds to a facula on the photosphere). The perturbations are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Haisheng Ji , Parida Hashim , Zhenxiang Hong , Zhe Xu , Jinhua Shen , Kaifan Ji , Wenda Cao

The inverse Evershed flow (IEF) is a mass motion towards sunspots at chromospheric heights. We combined high-resolution observations of NOAA 12418 from the Dunn Solar Telescope and vector magnetic field measurements from the Helioseismic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 A. Prasad , M. Ranganathan , C. Beck , D. P. Choudhary , Q. Hu

In models of fast magnetic reconnection, flux transfer occurs within a small portion of a current sheet triggering stored magnetic energy to be thermalized by shocks. When the initial current sheet separates magnetic fields which are not…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. W. Longcope , S. J. Bradshaw

The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) between the Sun and Earth is an extension of the solar magnetic field carried by the solar wind into interplanetary space. Monitoring variations in the IMF upstream of the Earth would provide very…

Space Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 The LHAASO Collaboration , C. W. Jiang , Y. Yang

The precipitation of charged particles from the magnetosphere into the ionosphere is one of the crucial coupling mechanisms between these two regions of geospace and is associated with multiple space weather effects, such as global…

Study of the dynamic nature of low-latitude ionosphere during geomagnetically disturbed conditions, especially in the EIA and the magnetic equatorial regions are vital for understanding the underlying physics as well as for mitigating space…

Space Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Sumanjit Chakraborty

X-rays and gamma-rays from astronomical sources such as solar flares are mostly absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere. Resulting electron-ion production rate as a function of height depends on the intensity and wavelength of the injected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Sourav Palit , Suman Ray , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Using particle data from the ELFIN satellites, we present a statistical study of 284 proton isotropy boundary events on the nightside magnetosphere, characterizing their occurrence and distribution in local time, latitude (L-shell), energy,…

Context: Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are eruptions of plasma from the Sun that travel through interplanetary space and may encounter Earth. CMEs often enclose a magnetic flux rope (MFR), the orientation of which largely determines the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Vincent E. Ledvina , Erika Palmerio , Christina Kay , Nada Al-Haddad , Pete Riley

We have investigated a dependence of the relative density of phase slips in the GPS navigation system on the disturbance level of the Earth's magnetosphere. The study is based on using Internet-available selected data from the global GPS…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Afraimovich , O. S. Lesyuta , I. I. Ushakov

In this study we use high-quality convection data from the Electron Drift Instrument on board Cluster to investigate how near-Earth tail activity affects the average convection pattern in the magnetotail lobes when the interplanetary…

To understand the global-scale physical processes behind coronal mass ejection (CME)-driven geomagnetic storms and predict their intensity as a space weather forecasting measure, we develop an interplanetary CME flux rope-magnetosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Souvik Roy , Dibyendu Nandy

We investigate shock structure and particle acceleration in relativistic magnetized collisionless electron-ion shocks by means of 2.5D particle-in-cell simulations with ion-to-electron mass ratios (m_i/m_e) ranging from 16 to 1000. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We present 350 micron polarization observations of four low-mass cores containing Class 0 protostars: L483, L1157, L1448-IRS2, and Serp-FIR1. This is the second paper in a larger survey aimed at testing magnetically regulated models for…

In the vicinity of Earth's orbit, the typical solar wind Alfv\'{e}n Mach number exceeds 5, and the super-Alfv\'{e}nic solar wind drives a conventional magnetosphere configuration. However, at the ejecta phase of an interplanetary coronal…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Yuxi Chen , Chuanfei Dong , Li-Jen Chen , Menelaos Sarantos , Brandon L. Burkholder

The aim of this paper is to study the plasma flows on the Mercury surface for different interplanetary magnetic field orientations on the day side of the planet. We use a single fluid MHD model in spherical coordinates to simulate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 J. Varela , F. Pantellini , M. Moncuquet

We compare the predictions of the GUMICS$-$4 global magnetohydrodynamic model for the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere with Cluster~SC3 measurements for over one year, from January 29, 2002, to February 2, 2003.…

We use the MHD with embedded particle-in-cell model (MHD-EPIC) to study the Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) dayside kinetic processes challenge event at 01:50-03:00 UT on 2015-11-18, when the magnetosphere was driven by a steady…

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…