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Investigation of the occurrence of significant deviations in the magnetopause location: solar-wind and foreshock effects
Niklas Grimmich
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Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Adrian Pöppelwerth
Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Martin Owain Archer
Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK
David Gary Sibeck
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Ferdinand Plaschke
Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA
Vicki Toy-Edens
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA
Drew Lawson Turner
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA
Hyangpyo Kim
Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
Rumi Nakamura
Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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Alexander Lukin, Anton Artemyev, Evgeny Panov, Rumi Nakamura, Anatoly Petrukovich, Robert Ergun, Barbara Giles, Yuri Khotyaintsev, Per Arne Lindqvist, Christopher Russell, and Robert Strangeway
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Short summary
The boundary of Earth's magnetic field, the magnetopause, deflects and reacts to the solar wind, the energetic particles emanating from the Sun. We find that certain types of solar wind favour the occurrence of deviations between the magnetopause locations observed by spacecraft and those predicted by models. In addition, the turbulent region in front of the magnetopause, the foreshock, has a large influence on the location of the magnetopause and thus on the accuracy of the model predictions.
The boundary of Earth's magnetic field, the magnetopause, deflects and reacts to the solar wind,...
