Magnetosheath
The magnetosheath is the region of space between the magnetopause and the bow shock of a planet's magnetosphere. The regularly organized magnetic field generated by the planet becomes weak and irregular in the magnetosheath due to interaction with the incoming solar wind, and is incapable of fully deflecting the highly charged particles. The density of the particles in this region is considerably lower than what is found beyond the bow shock, but greater than within the magnetopause, and can be considered a transitory state.[1][2]
Scientific research into the exact nature of the magnetosheath has been limited due to a longstanding misconception that it was a simple byproduct of the bow shock/magnetopause interaction and had no inherently important properties of its own. Recent studies indicate, however, that the magnetosheath is a dynamic region of turbulent
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See also
- Earth's magnetic field
- Interplanetary magnetic field (IMF)
- Magnetotail
- Van Allen radiation belt
- Plasmasphere
- Ionosphere
- Space weather and heliophysics
References
- ^ "Magnetosheath".
- ^ Iver Cairns (September 1999). http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cairns/teaching/lecture14/node2.html
- ^ W. Baumjohann, R. Nakamura, in Treatise on Geophysics (2007). https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/magnetosheath
- ^ Emiliya Yordanova, Zoltán Vörös, Savvas Raptis and Tomas Karlsson (February 2020). https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2020.00002/full
- hdl:10138/161497.
- ^ Ali H. Sulaiman, Adam Masters, Michele K. Dougherty, and Xianzhe Jia "The Magnetic Structure of Saturn's Magnetosheath" from "JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 119, 5651 - 5661, DOI: 10.1002/2014JA020019" (February 2015). https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1502/1502.05504.pdf
External links
- The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
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