Magnetopause charging and transfer of momentum and energy into magnetosphere

S. Savin , V. V. Lyahov , V. M. Neshchadim , E. Amata (1) , Jean-Louis Rauch (2) , V. P. Silin , V. Yu. Popov (3) , V. P. Budaev , S. I. Klimov (4) , A. A. Skalsky (4) , L. A. Legen , J. Blecki (5)

1 IFSI - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario
2 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
3 Faculty of Physics [MSU, Moscow]
4 IKI - Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
5 CBK - Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences

The theory of charged current sheets is compared with plasma data of Prognoz-8, Interball-1, Polar, and Cluster satellites. The possibility of momentum and energy transfer into the magnetosphere, irrespective of magnetic field line reconnection, as a specific dynamo effect, is shown. This relates statistical properties of the turbulent boundary layers with the character of the transfer through thin boundaries.

Keywords: Charged current sheets momentum and energy transfer plasma turbulence and boundary layers anomalous transfer

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

S. Savin, V. V. Lyahov, V. M. Neshchadim, E. Amata, Jean-Louis Rauch, et al.. Magnetopause charging and transfer of momentum and energy into magnetosphere. Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute, 2017, 44 (4), pp.99 - 105. ⟨10.3103/S1068335617040030⟩. ⟨insu-01678450⟩