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Oblique penetration of solar-wind filaments into the magnetosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1998

WENLONG DAI  and
PAUL R. WOODWARD
WENLONG DAI
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy/Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
PAUL R. WOODWARD
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy/Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, 116 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Abstract

In this paper, a set of two-dimensional simulations for resistive magneto-hydrodynamical equations are performed to investigate the interaction between a solar-wind filament and the magnetosphere when the filament is obliquely oriented with respect to the direction of the magnetospheric field. Detailed pictures for the interaction are given. For typical parameters near the magnetopause, a filament with a sufficiently large excess flow velocity will penetrate into the magnetosphere, and will then be repelled back towards the magnetopause by the highly compressed and bent magnetospheric field. Finally, the filament will be smeared along the magnetospheric field near the magnetopause. When the angle is small, the filament will penetrate deeply into the magnetosphere before it is repelled back. Therefore there is a maximum depth a penetrated filament may reach into the magnetosphere. The effect of spontaneous reconnections behind a penetrating filament on the penetration appears to be negligible.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , November 1998 , pp. 711 - 729
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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