Articles | Volume 41, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-87-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-41-87-2023
ANGEO Communicates
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24 Jan 2023
ANGEO Communicates |  | 24 Jan 2023

Magnetopause as conformal mapping

Yasuhito Narita, Simon Toepfer, and Daniel Schmid

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Magnetopause is a shielding boundary of planetary magnetic field. Many mathematical models have been proposed to describe or to reproduce the magnetopause location, but they are restricted to the real-number functions. In this work, we analytically develop a magnetopause model in the complex-number domain, which is advantageous in deforming the magnetopause shape in a conformal (angle-preserving) way, and is suited to compare different models or map one model onto another.