Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Magnetopause ripples going against the flow form azimuthally stationary surface waves

  • M. O. Archer,
  • M. D. Hartinger,
  • F. Plaschke,
  • D. J. Southwood,
  • L. Rastaetter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25923-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The magnetopause surface waves (SW) that drive global plasma dynamics are thought, like waves on water, to travel with the driving solar wind. Here, the authors show that impulsively-excited SW, with standing structure along the geomagnetic field, are stationary by propagating against this flow.