Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9821323r&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A12, p. 21,323-21,333
Physics
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Earth Magnetosphere, Electrons, Flux (Rate), Geomagnetic Tail, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Protons, Sheets, Space Plasmas, Galileo Spacecraft, Geosynchronous Orbits, Magnetic Storms, Magnetometers, Spacecraft Trajectories
Scientific paper
On December 8, 1990, the Galileo spacecraft used the Earth for a gravity assist on its way to Jupiter. Its trajectory was such that it crossed geosynchronous orbit at approximately local midnight between 1900 and 2000 UT. At the same time, spacecraft 1984-129 was also located at geosynchronous orbit near local midnight. Several flux dropout events were observed when the two spacecraft were in the near-Earth plasma sheet in the same local time sector. Flux dropout events are associated with plasma sheet thinning in the near-profile of the near-Earth plasma sheet while 1984-129 provided an azimuthal profile. With measurements from these two spacecraft we can distinguish between spatial structures and temporal change. Our observations confirm that the geosynchronous flux dropout events are consistent with plasma sheet thinning which changes the spacecraft's magnetic connection from the trapping region to the more distant plasma sheet. However, for this period, thinning occurred on two spatial and temporal scales. The geosynchronous dropouts were highly localized phenomena of 30 min duration superimposed on a more global reconfiguration of the tail lasting approximately 4 hours.
Belian Richard D.
Fritz Teresa A.
Galland Kivelson Margaret
McEntire Richard W.
Reeves Geoff D.
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