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The Earth's magnetic field can be decomposed into spherical harmonics, and the exact coefficients of the decomposition can be determined through a few measurements of its value at different locations. Using measurements from a magnetometer…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Nuno Barros e Sá , Lourenço Faria , Bernardo Alves , Miguel Cymbron

We present the first statistical study of magnetic structures and associated energy dissipation observed during a single period of turbulent magnetic reconnection, by using the \textit{in-situ} measurements of the Magnetospheric Multiscale…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 K. Bergstedt , H. Ji , J. Jara-Almonte , J. Yoo , R. E. Ergun , L. -J. Chen

Modeling and forecasting the solar wind-driven global magnetic field perturbations is an open challenge. Current approaches depend on simulations of computationally demanding models like the Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model or sampling…

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

Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) are the primary sources of geomagnetic storms at Earth. Negative out-of-ecliptic component (Bz) of magnetic field in the ICME or its associated sheath region is necessary for it to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Talwinder Singh , Dinesha V. Hegde , Tae K. Kim , Nikolai V. Pogorelov

The appearance of eruptive space plasma processes, e.g., in eruptive flares as observed in the solar atmosphere, is usually assumed to be caused by magnetic reconnection. The process of magnetic reconnection is often connected with singular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-07 Dieter Nickeler , Marian Karlicky , Miroslav Barta

Global models of the heliosphere are critical tools used in the interpretation of heliospheric observations. There are several three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) heliospheric models that rely on different strategies and…

Internal-external field separation is crucial for many aspects of geomagnetism, aiming at distinguishing contributions of the magnetic field generated within the Earth (or any other planet) from those produced in the exterior. When data is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-06 X. Huang , C. Gerhards , Z. Ren

Earth System Models (ESMs) are essential tools for understanding the impact of human actions on Earth's climate. One key application of these models is studying extreme weather events, such as heat waves or dry spells, which have…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Seth Bassetti , Brian Hutchinson , Claudia Tebaldi , Ben Kravitz

Topological phase space disconnection has been recently found to be a general phenomenon in isolated anisotropic spin systems. It sets a general framework to understand the emergence of ferromagnetism in finite magnetic systems starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-29 F. Borgonovi , G. L. Celardo , B. Goncalves , L. Spadafora

Using observational data from the \emph{Magnetospheric Multiscale} (MMS) Mission in the Earth's magnetosheath, we estimate the energy cascade rate using different techniques within the framework of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

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

Changes in the solar surface area covered by small-scale magnetic elements are thought to cause long-term changes in the solar spectral irradiance, which are important for determining the impact on Earth's climate. To study the effect of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Afram , Y. C. Unruh , S. K. Solanki , M. Schuessler , A. Lagg , A. Voegler

We have performed a three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulation to study the emergence of a twisted magnetic flux tube from -20,000 km of the solar convection zone to the corona through the photosphere and the chromosphere. The middle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Toriumi , T. Yokoyama

The Eulerian space-time correlation of strong Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in strongly magnetized plasmas is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations of Reduced MHD turbulence and phenomenological modeling. Two new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Jean C. Perez , Sofiane Bourouaine

Using multipoint observations we show, for the first time, that Foreshock Bubbles (FBs) have a global impact on Earth's magnetosphere. We show that an FB, a transient kinetic phenomenon due to the interaction of backstreaming suprathermal…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Martin Archer , Drew Turner , Jonathan Eastwood , Steven Schwartz , Timothy Horbury

During magnetic reconnection in collisionless space plasma, the electron fluid decouples from the magnetic field within narrow current layers, and theoretical models for this process can be distinguished in terms of their predicted current…

The outflowing magnetized wind from a host star shapes planetary and exoplanetary magnetospheres dictating the extent of its impact. We carry out three-dimensional (3D) compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the interactions…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Srijan Bharati Das , Arnab Basak , Dibyendu Nandy , Bhargav Vaidya

The elements of the magneto-dipole (MD) interaction matrix are calculated for a pair of oriented spheroidal magnetic nanoparticles with a semiaxes ratio a/b = 1.25, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 as a function of the distance between the particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 N. A. Usov

Polarity reversals are a key feature of Earth's magnetic field, yet the processes governing them are still poorly understood. Dipole reversals have been found in many numerical dynamo simulations and often occur close to the transition…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Andrew T. Clarke , Christopher J. Davies , Souvik Naskar , Stephen J. Mason