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Magnetosheath Structure in an Anisotropic Plasma Model |
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| Authors: | Bruno P. Besser Mikhail I. Pudovkin Valentina V. Lebedeva Svetlana A. Zaitseva Claudia-Veronika Meister |
| Affiliation: | 1. Institut für Weltraumforschung, ?sterreichischeAkademie der Wissenschaften, Inffeldgasse 12, A-8010, Graz, Austria 2. Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, 198904, St. Petersburg, Russia 3. Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 12, 14482, Potsdam, Germany |
| Abstract: | Variations of the magnetic field and plasma parameters across the Earth's magnetosheath are calculated for an anisotropic plasma in the Chew-Goldberger-Low approximation. Additionally, proton pitch-angle diffusion is taken into account as the energy transfer mechanism between the direction perpendicular and parallel to the magnetic field. We discuss the main characteristics of the magnetic barrier for different temperature relaxation times and their dependence on the interplanetary magnetic field orientation. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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