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Unlike the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling is concentrated mainly in the polar magnetosphere, especially in the auroral plasma and is performed via field-aligned currents, the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling can occur in all outer boundaries of the magnetosphere from the magnetopause on the day side to the magnetotail on the night side. On the day side, in fact, before the supersonic magnetized plasma flow of the solar wind directly impacts on the magnetosphere, a shock can be first formed in front of the magnetosphere due to the blunt obstacle of the magnetosphere, called the bow shock, and the magnetopause is the interface between the shocked solar wind and the magnetosphere.

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Wu, DJ., Chen, L. (2020). KAWs in Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling. In: Kinetic Alfvén Waves in Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas. Atmosphere, Earth, Ocean & Space. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7989-5_4

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