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Murchana Khusroo1, Madhurjya P Bora1
1Physics Department, Gauhati University, Guwahati 781014, India.
Abstract:
We present an analysis of a Hall-magnetohydrodynamics model of the magnetospheric plasma with finite Larmor radius effect. Through a bifurcation analysis of the resultant nonlinear system, we show that this nonlinear model does not possess a limit cycle, which rules out regular periodic oscillations with constant amplitude. However, it does result in a train of magnetosonic solitons, localized in space, with amplitudes increasing in time, which are largely in agreement with what is usually observed in the magnetopause region. We call these oscillations aperiodic magnetospheric oscillations. We emphasize that most of the train of solitary oscillations observed by the Cluster fleet and other spacecrafts do not have constant amplitudes: they either continuously increase or decrease. These train of solitons with nonconstant amplitudes is a primary solution of our model.
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