Magnetopause displacements: The possible role of dust

Large compressions of the magnetopause are proposed to result from temporary encounters of the magnetosphere with dust streams in interplanetary space. Such streams can have their origin in cometary dust tails or asteroids which cross the inner heliosphere. Dust ejected from such objects when embedding the magnetosphere for their transition time may cause substantial global deformations of the magnetopause due to the very large dust grain mass which compensates for the low dust density.

@article{id1722,
  author = {Treumann, R. A. and Baumjohann, W.},
  doi = {10.5194/angeo-29-2219-20111885-2011},
  journal = {Annales Geophysicae},
  language = {en},
  note = {5-page Letter, 2 Figures},
  pages = {2219-2223},
  title = {Magnetopause displacements: The possible role of dust},
  url = {www.ann-geophys.net/29/2219/2011/},
  volume = {29},
  year = {2011},
}

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