Earth’s magnetosphere and outer radiation belt under sub-Alfvénic solar wind

The interaction between the Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind results in the formation of a collisionless bow shock. Here, the authors study an even in which the solar wind Mach number remained steadily below one, leading to the evanescence of the bow shock and loss of electrons in the outer...

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Main Authors: Noé Lugaz, Charles J. Farrugia, Chia-Lin Huang, Reka M. Winslow, Harlan E. Spence, Nathan A. Schwadron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13001