Fractal properties of the IMF and the Earth’s magnetotail field

K. Kabin; V. O. Papitashvili

doi:10.1186/BF03352089

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Fractal properties of the IMF and the Earth’s magnetotail field

K. Kabin¹Email author and
V. O. Papitashvili¹

Earth, Planets and Space201450:BF03352089

https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352089

© The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS); The Seismological Society of Japan; The Volcanological Society of Japan; The Geodetic Society of Japan; The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences. 1998

Received: 19 December 1996
Accepted: 29 September 1997
Published: 6 June 2014

Abstract

The time series of the interplanetary and Earth’s magnetotail magnetic fields are analyzed. The data subsets taken by the IMP 8 spacecraft outside and inside of the Earth’s magnetosphere show clearly the fractal properties: their “box dimensions” are found to be close to 1.7 and 1.5 respectively. It is shown that data gaps have a little effect on the results. The magnetic field increment distributions are found to be non-Gaussian, but self-affine.

Keywords

Solar Wind
Fractal Property
Interplanetary Magnetic Field
Fractional Brownian Motion
Solar Wind Turbulence