Abstract
IMP 6 magnetic field measurements demonstrate that the magnetopause is a complex variable boundary with few specific characteristics that persist from orbit to orbit. The appearance of the local magnetopause is determined largely by the boundary conditions imposed by the interplanetary field and the geomagnetic dipole. Magnitude changes across the magnetopause are frequently absent, and if concurrently the magnetosheath and magnetosphere fields also happen to be aligned, then the Chapman-Ferraro current sheet is absent. Ion cyclotron waves are identified in the magnetosheath near the magnetopause. Similar waves near the proton gyrofrequency are frequently seen in the current sheet associated with a large angle change at the boundary. Such waves may be important in the transfer of particles and momentum into the magnetosphere. Tailward propagating waves on the magnetopause boundary are found to be responsible for multiple crossings of the tail boundary at 32 R E Monochromatic waves are occasionally seen in the magnetosphere at frequencies slightly below the proton gyrofrequency.
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Fairfield, D.H. (1976). Waves in the Vicinity of the Magnetopause. In: McCormac, B.M. (eds) Magnetospheric Particles and Fields. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 58. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1503-5_7
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