Hybird state of the tail mangetic configuration during steady convection events

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....9923571s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A12, p. 23,571-23,582

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Convection, Current Sheets, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Configurations, Polar Substorms, Steady Flow, Auroras, Earth Magnetosphere, Geosynchronous Orbits, Gradients, Solar Terrestrial Interactions

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Previous observations have shown that during periods of steady magnetospheric convection (SMC) a large amount of magnetic flux crosses the plasma sheet (corresponding to approximately 10 deg wide auroral oval at the nightside) and that the magnetic configuration in the midtail is relaxed (the curent sheet is thick and contains enhanced B(sub Z). These signatures are typical for the substorm recovery phase. Using near-geostationary magnetic field data, magnetic field modeling and a noval diagostic technique (isotropic boundary algorithm), we show that in the near-Earth tail the magnetic confirguration is very stretched during the SMC events. This stretching is caused by an intense, thin westward current. Because of the srongly depressed B(sub Z), there is a large radial gradient in the near-tail magetic field. These signatures have been peviously associated only with the substorm growth phase. Our results indicate that during the SMC periods the magnetic configuration is very peculiar, with co-existing thin near-Earth current sheet and thick midtail plasma sheet. The deep local minimum of the equatorial B(sub Z) that devleops at R approximately 12 R(sub E) is consistent with steady, adiabatic, Earthward convection in the midtail. These results impose contraints on the existing substorm theories, and call for an explanation of how such a stressed configuration can persist for such a long time without tail current disruptions that occur at the end of a substorm growth phase.

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