Role of Magnetosheath Parameters on Magnetopause Processes

Title: Role of magnetosheath parameters on magnetopause processes Author: Oksana Tkachenko Department: Department of Surface and Plasma Science Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Jana Šafránková, DrSc. e-mail address: Jana.Safrankova@mff.cuni.cz Abstract: The thesis addresses of two regions significant for the solar wind- magnetosphere coupling: the cusp in high geomagnetic latitudes and the low-latitude (LLBL) subsolar magnetopause. A penetration of plasma of a solar origin into the magnetosphere could be realized directly through magnetospheric cusps. The region adjacent to the magnetopause in the cusp vicinity is highly turbulent, occupied by the heated magnetosheath- -like plasma with a low drift velocity for which occurrence of vortices is a very common feature. In the first part of the thesis, we present a de- tailed analysis of a vortex-like structure created by a turbulent plasma flow around the magnetopause indentation above the cusp and using the data from Interball-1 and Magion-4; we find necessary conditions and a possible mechanisms to creation of such structures. The second part concerns the low-latitude boundary layer formation, its spatial structure and temporal changes based on THEMIS multipoint observations. In spite of its cru- cial role in transfer of mass, momentum, and energy from the..