Spontaneous substorm onset during a prolonged period of steady, southward interplanetary magnetic field

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Nov 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996jgr...10124583a&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 101, Issue A11, p. 24583-24598

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, Magnetospheric Physics: Storms And Substorms, Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection

Scientific paper

We document a clear case of spontaneous substorm onset under conditions of steady southward interplanetary magnetic field on January 22, 1993. The substorm occurred at 0415 UT with an intensification at 0455 UT during an interval of convection bay activity but had most of the features associated with substorms. These features include high-latitude and midlatitude magnetic bays at ground magnetometers, and magnetic field compression and energetic particle injection at geosynchronous altitude. In addition, a plasmoid release was observed in the distant tail plasma sheet by the Geotail spacecraft at a GSM position (-96, 1, -6) RE. We conclude that spontaneous-onset substorms occur occasionally even during steady convection bay events. Such substorms and ``classical'' substorms progress in a very similar manner, irrespective of possible differences in their onset mechanism.

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