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Table 1 Summary of magnetopause reconstruction methods
From: Methods to derive the magnetopause from soft X-ray images by the SMILE mission
Approach name | Number of images needed | Assumptions |
|---|---|---|
Boundary fitting approach, BFA (Jorgensen et al. 2019a) | 1 image | Functional forms of boundaries and X-ray emissivity |
Tangent fitting approach, TFA (Sun et al. 2020) | 1 image | 1) Functional forms of boundaries |
Tangential direction approach, TDA (Collier and Connor 2018) | \(\ge \) 2 images | 1) Time stationarity |
Computerized tomography approach, CTA (Jorgensen et al. 2022) | Many images | Time stationarity |