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Structure, Location, and Dynamics of the Magnetopause
Grygorov, Kostiantyn ; Přech, Lubomír (advisor) ; Bárta, Miroslav (referee) ; Hayosh, Mykhaylo (referee)
Title: Structure, Location, and Dynamics of the Magnetopause Author: Kostiantyn Grygorov Department: Department of Surface and Plasma Science Supervisor: Doc. RNDr. Lubomír Přech, Dr., Department of Surface and Plasma Science e-mail address: Prech@mbox.troja.mff.cuni.cz Abstract: The magnetopause is the key region where the collisionless plasma from the Sun penetrates into the Earth's magnetosphere. A transfer of the plasma, momentum, and energy across the magnetopause is highly variable and depends on solar wind conditions, similarly as the magnetopause location. This thesis addresses the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction in two different regions: the dayside equatorial magnetopause and the far magnetotail. In the first part of the thesis, we present a detailed analysis of the interplanetary (IP) shock propa- gation through the solar wind, its impact on the substorm development and its influence on the far magnetotail. We demonstrate that the change of the solar wind VZ component across the shock creates a huge kink that propagates along the tail. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the influence of prolonged intervals of a radial interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) on the dayside magnetopause. The statistical analysis of the equatorial magnetopause shape and location based on THEMIS observations...
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MHD discontinuities in the solar wind and their relation to processes in the Earth magnetosphere
Goncharov, Oleksandr ; Šafránková, Jana (advisor) ; Souček, Jan (referee) ; Vandas, Marek (referee)
1 Title: MHD discontinuities in the solar wind and their relation to processes in the Earth magnetosphere Author: Oleksandr Goncharov Department / Institute: Department of Surface and Plasma Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Supervisor of the doctoral thesis: Prof. RNDr. Jana Safrankova, DrSc Abstract: Collisionless shocks are ubiquitous in the heliosphere from the outer corona to the termination shock. They play an important role in the interaction of the solar wind with the planets because they efficiently convert the energy of the directed ion flow into the energy of heated ions and electrons, the energy of the enhanced magnetic field, and the energy of the accelerated particles. The leading idea of the thesis is to investigate evolution of distinct solar wind features, predominantly interplanetary shocks, within the solar wind, their interaction with the outer magnetospheric boundaries (magnetopause and bow shock), and to follow a path of resulting discontinuities through the magnetosphere up to its far tail. The methodology is based on the statistical evaluation of multispacecraft observations as well as on case studies of particular events. Some experimental investigations are supported with computer modeling. Moreover, an application of fast plasma measurements of the...
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