Kelvin-Helmholtz instability-driven magnetopause dynamics as turbulent pathway for the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling and the flank-central plasma sheet communication

Kyoung Joo Hwang, Chih Ping Wang, Katariina Nykyri, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Mark B. Tapley, James L. Burch, Stephen A. Fuselier, Jerry Goldstein, Kyunghwan Dokgo, Takuma Nakamura, Mikhail Sitnov, Xuanye Ma, Yu Lin, Xue Wang

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Original languageEnglish
Article number1151869
JournalFrontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Volume10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords

  • central plasma sheet
  • energetic particle, magnetotail flapping
  • Kelvin-Helmholts instability
  • Kelvin-Helmholtz wave/vortex
  • magnetic reconnecion
  • magnetopause and boundary layers
  • solar wind-magnetosphere coupling

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