Plasmoid formation for multiple onset substorms: observations of the Japanese Lunar Mission "Kaguya"

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009angeo..27...59n&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2009, pp.59-64

Physics

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The Japanese Lunar Mission "Kaguya" carried out its first magnetic field and plasma measurements in the Earth's magnetotail on 22 December 2007. Fortuitously, three well-defined multiple onset substoms took place. Kaguya was located in the premidnight magnetotail at radial distances of 56 RE and observed plasmoids and/or traveling compression regions (TCRs). Although the present study is based on limited data sets, important issues on multiple onset substorms can be examined. Each onset in a series of onsets releases a plasmoid, and magnetic reconnection likely proceeds to tail lobe field lines for each onset. Since the duration of each plasmoid is less than 5 min, these observations imply that magnetic reconnection for each onset can develop fully to the tail lobe field lines and be quenched within this timescale.

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