Magnetic Reconnection in The Magnetotail: In Situ Cluster Multipoint Observations

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Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufmsh32c..01r&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #SH32C-01

Physics

2700 Magnetospheric Physics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2764 Plasma Sheet

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Being a constellation of four spacecraft, Cluster allows to discriminate spatial structures and temporal variations and provides the tools to determine the local system of reference and spatial gradient estimation. Using four-point magnetic field measurements we calculate the magnetic field curl and curvature vectors within flow reversal regions. This technique allows to map the X-line position and investigate plasma properties and magnetic field structure near and within a reconnection region. In this paper we review attempts to apply the multi-point data analysis methods to survey the 3-D magnetic and electric field structure, ion properties and wave activity for several examples of flow reversals, detected by Cluster at geocentric distance of 19 RE in the magnetotail.

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