Physics
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm..sm42c04b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #SM42C-04
Physics
2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2788 Storms And Substorms
Scientific paper
This study involves the search for quasi-steady reconnection in the mid magnetotail (about 30 Earth radii) during magnetic storms. We collected a database of magnetic storms whose main phase Dst exceeded -100 nT. We then searched to find events in our list when satellites (Interball-Tail, Geotail, IMP-8) were located in the plasma sheet, as close to the neutral sheet and to midnight as possible. We found only a small set of events that satisfy these constraints. These events suggest that quasi-steady reconnection can occur for several hours during storms in the mid magnetotail. Under those conditions, strong convection will not result in the pressure balance inconsistency described by Erickson and Wolf (1980) because the neutral line is relatively close to the Earth and the amount of compression of the flux tube convecting into the near-Earth region in not as large as if the flux tube convected in from Lunar distances.
Benitez-Marquez E.
Lopez Robert E.
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