Articles | Volume 36, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1081-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-1081-2018
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08 Aug 2018
Regular paper |  | 08 Aug 2018

Cavitons and spontaneous hot flow anomalies in a hybrid-Vlasov global magnetospheric simulation

Xochitl Blanco-Cano, Markus Battarbee, Lucile Turc, Andrew P. Dimmock, Emilia K. J. Kilpua, Sanni Hoilijoki, Urs Ganse, David G. Sibeck, Paul A. Cassak, Robert C. Fear, Riku Jarvinen, Liisa Juusola, Yann Pfau-Kempf, Rami Vainio, and Minna Palmroth

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We use the Vlasiator code to study the characteristics of transient structures that exist in the Earth's foreshock, i.e. upstream of the bow shock. The structures are cavitons and spontaneous hot flow anomalies (SHFAs). These transients can interact with the bow shock. We study the changes the shock suffers via this interaction. We also investigate ion distributions associated with the cavitons and SHFAs. A very important result is that the arrival of multiple SHFAs results in shock erosion.
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