Distribution of X-type magnetic neutral lines in the magnetotail with Geotail observations

Details Distribution of X-type magnetic neutral lines in the magnetotail with Geotail observations Distribution of X-type magnetic neutral lines in the magnetotail with Geotail observations

Nov 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26.3341u&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 22, p. 3341-3344

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail

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We obtained the distribution of the X-type magnetic neutral lines in the magnetotail from XGSM=0 to -210RE with Geotail observations. For the detection of the neutral lines, we adopted simultaneous reversals of magnetic field from north to south (south to north) and ion bulk velocity from earthward to tailward (tailward to earthward). In the near-tail region (0>=XGSM>-30RE), the occurrence rate of the reversal events had a peak at YGSM~+9RE and was characterized by a very asymmetric form in the YGSM direction. The region of the reversal events appeared to expand in the YGSM direction up to a 50RE width at XGSM~-50RE. This width was maintained in the region further downtail (XGSM<-50RE). The occurrence rate integrated in the YGSM direction was found to have a maximum at XGSM~=-60RE.

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