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A comparison of measured parameters of magnetosheath plasma with predictions of a new magnetosheath-magnetosphere model

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A possibility of description of the properties of plasma flow in the magnetosheath using the INME hydrodynamical model is considered on the basis of a comparison with experimental data. This model is characterized by a high degree of self-consistency and, in particular, makes it possible to determine positions of the boundaries of the magnetosheath (the bow shock and magnetopause) using the interplanetary medium parameters. For two considered passages of the magnetosheath by the Interball-1 satellite, a good quantitative agreement of the measured parameters with the model calculation is obtained.

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    G. N. Zastenker & N. N. Shevyrev

  2. Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bontchev Str., Block 4, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    M. D. Kartalev & P. S. Dobreva

  3. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

    A. Koval

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Original Russian Text © G.N. Zastenker, M.D. Kartalev, P.S. Dobreva, N.N. Shevyrev, A. Koval, 2008, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2008, vol. 46, No. 6, pp. 499–513.

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Zastenker, G.N., Kartalev, M.D., Dobreva, P.S. et al. A comparison of measured parameters of magnetosheath plasma with predictions of a new magnetosheath-magnetosphere model. Cosmic Res 46, 469–483 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952508060014

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