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Plasma Pressure Profiles in the Dark Sector of the Earth’s Magnetosphere during the Magnetic Storm of May 29, 2010

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Variations in the radial profile of the pressure and distortions of the magnetic field of the magnetosphere in the dark sector near the equatorial plane during the storm of May 29, 2010, are analyzed based on THEMIS data. The position of the pressure maximum during the main phase of the storm is determined. The time dynamics of the pressure maximum is traced during the recovery phase. The time of pressure relaxation to initial values (before the main phase) during the recovery phase are assessed. The coincidence of the positions of the pressure peak maximum and of maximal deviation of the magnetic field from the dipole one is ascertained.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to NASA (contract NAS5-02099) and V. Angelopoulos for THEMIS data, especially D. Larson and R.P. Lin for providing SST data; C.W. Carlson and J.P. McFadden, for providing ESA data; and K.H. Glassmeier, U. Austerand, and W. Baumjohann, for FGM data distributed under the supervision of Technical University of Braunschweig and under the financial support of the German Ministry for Economy and Technology and the German Center for Aviation and Space (DLR) (contract 50 OC 0302). The authors are also grateful to R. Lepping for the opportunity to use data from the WIND satellite and to WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto, for providing geomagnetic indices.

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Kirpichev, I.P., Antonova, E.E. Plasma Pressure Profiles in the Dark Sector of the Earth’s Magnetosphere during the Magnetic Storm of May 29, 2010. Geomagn. Aeron. 58, 710–717 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793218060075

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