The goal of this simulation was to examine the spread of magnetic reconnection across the dayside magnetopause upon the arrival of a tangential discontinuity of the interplanetary magnetic field from a purely northward to southward configuration. Simple solar wind conditions were used to give us input into the system. A very high resolution grid setup was used in BATS-R-US.
Data used in the paper "Theory of Magnetic Switchbacks Fully Supported by Parker Solar Probe Observations" by G. Toth, M. Velli and B. van der Holst, ApJ 2023.
The Observations directory contains the PSP observations as simple text files that can be easily read by the IDL macros in the BATSRUS/share/IDL/General/ or any other plotting software.
The Simulations directory contains BATSRUS simulations including input and output files. The runlog files show the Git references. The output files are in binary format that can be read by the IDL macros in the BATSRUS/share/IDL/General/ or with the SpacePy software.
The BATSRUS directory contains the source code that can be used to reproduce the simulations.
G. Toth, M. Velli, B. van der Holst, 2023, Theory of Magnetic Switchbacks Fully Supported by Parker Solar Probe Observations, The Astrophysical Journal, in press
