Calculates the Shue et al. (1997) subsolar magnetopause radius
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Parameters: | ticks : spacepy.time.Ticktock
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Returns: | out : float
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Examples
>>> import spacepy.time as spt
>>> import spacepy.empiricals as emp
>>> ticks = spt.tickrange('2002-01-01T12:00:00','2002-01-04T00:00:00',.25)
>>> emp.ShueMP(ticks)
array([ 10.57319537, 10.91327764, 10.75086873, 10.77577207,
9.78180261, 11.0374474 , 11.4065 , 11.27555451,
11.47988573, 11.8202582 , 11.23834814])
>>> data = {'P': [2,4], 'Bz': [-2.4, -2.4]}
>>> emp.ShueMP(data)
array([ 9.96096838, 8.96790412])