Roberto Manuzzo
LPP, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Sud, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay,Sorbonne Universités, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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Author ProfileGerard Belmont
LPP, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Sud, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay,Sorbonne Universités, PSL Research University, Paris, France
Author ProfileLaurence Rezeau
LPP, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Sud, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay,Sorbonne Universités, PSL Research University, Paris, France
Author ProfileNicolas Aunai
LPP, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Sud, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay,Sorbonne Universités, PSL Research University, Paris, France
Author ProfileAbstract
We propose a new numerical code based on a new multi-species theoretical
model to study the mass, momentum and energy exchanges (MMEE) that
happen across the magnetospheric boundaries. We use two distinct
populations for ions, one cold and one hot (plus one neutralising
electron population), to take into account the differences between the
properties of the plasmas coming from the magnetosphere and from the
solar wind. This approach represents a step forward in the context of
the study of coupled large-scale plasma systems being a new and
efficient compromise between fluid and kinetic codes in tracing the
different plasma contributions during MMEE. Due to the very important
role that magnetic reconnection plays in connecting the shocked Solar
Wind to the Earth’s magnetosphere, we show and discuss the results we
obtained about the simulations of the tearing mode instability occurring
across an Earth’s magnetopause that we modelled thanks to our most
recents MMS observations [Rezeau 2018]. Rezeau, Belmont, Manuzzo,
Aunai, Dargent, 2018, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics,
123, doi: 10.1002/2017JA024526.