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Specification for the SPASE base information model.
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Magnetotail and Tethys definition (V. Genot-S. Fung email threads) #32

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lfb12345 commented 1 year ago

New definitions adopted:

Magnetotail: The region on the nightside of the body where the magnetic field is stretched backwards by the force of a stellar wind into a windsock-like shape. For Earth, the magnetotail extends from the inner magnetosphere on the nightside at a distance of about 10 Re and has been observed at downstream distances beyond 1000 Re.

Tethys:The fifth largest moon of Saturn and the sixteenth largest moon in the Solar System. Tethys orbit is the third closest to Saturn of the major Cronian moons.

lfb12345 commented 1 year ago

These revised definitions are in the SPASE Base Model dictionary, version 2.6.0.

lfb12345 commented 1 year ago

Slightly revised Magnetotail definition: The region of space within the magnetosphere of a magnetized planetary body where the nightside magnetic field is stretched out in the anti-stellar direction by stellar wind interaction into a windsock-like shape. For Earth, solar wind-magnetosphere interaction produces a magnetotail that extends tailward from a distance of about 10 Re on the nightside to downstream distances beyond 1000 Re.