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

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

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