The statistical cusp - A flux transfer event model

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Sep 1992

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Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 40, no. 9, p. 1251-1268.

Physics

40

Cusps, Earth Magnetosphere, Flux Transfer Events, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Daytime, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, Particle Precipitation

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In this paper, we predict the precipitation signatures which are associated with transient magnetopause reconnection, following recent observations of the dependence of dayside ionospheric convection on the orientation of the IMF. We then employ a simple model of the longitudinal motion of flux-transfer-event signatures to show how such events can easily reproduce the local time distribution of cusp occurrence probabilities, as observed by low-altitude satellites. This is true even in the limit where the cusp is a series of discrete events. Furthermore, we investigate the existence of double cusp patches predicted by the simple model and show how these events may be identified in the data.

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