Plasma Sheet Expansion: Revisit

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May 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agusmsm51b..02o&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2005, abstract #SM51B-02

Physics

2708 Current Systems (2409), 2744 Magnetotail, 2760 Plasma Convection, 2764 Plasma Sheet, 2788 Storms And Substorms

Scientific paper

The present study observationally examines the expansion of the plasma sheet in the near-Earth magnetotail. Three possible explanations are tested with plasma and magnetic field measurements made by the Geotail satellite. Those explanations are (1) the filling of newly closed flux tube with fresh plasma, (2) the increase in the plasma-sheet plasma pressure on the arrival of the fast plasma flow, and (3) the decrease in the lobe magnetic pressure due to tail current disruption. The result will be addressed in terms of connection between near-Earth (tail current disruption) and mid-tail substorm (near-Earth reconnection) processes.

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