Transient plasma injections in the dayside magnetosphere: one-to-one correlated observations by Cluster and SuperDARN

Details Transient plasma injections in the dayside magnetosphere: one-to-one correlated observations by Cluster and SuperDARN Transient plasma injections in the dayside magnetosphere: one-to-one correlated observations by Cluster and SuperDARN

Jan 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004angeo..22..141m&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae, vol. 22, Issue 1, pp.141-158

Physics

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. Conjunctions in the cusp between the four Cluster spacecraft and SuperDARN ground-based radars offer unique opportunities to compare the signatures of transient plasma injections simultaneously in the high-altitude dayside magnetosphere and in the ionosphere. We report here on such observations on 17 March 2001, when the IMF initially northward and duskward, turns southward and dawnward for a short period. The changes in the convection direction at Cluster are well correlated with the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) variations. Moreover, the changes in the ionosphere follow those in the magnetosphere, with a 2-3min delay. When mapped into the ionosphere, the convection velocity at Cluster is about 1.5 times larger than measured by SuperDARN. In the high-altitude cusp, field and particle observations by Cluster display the characteristic signatures of plasma injections into the magnetosphere suggestive of Flux Transfer Events (FTEs). Simultaneous impulsive and localized convection plasma flows are observed in the ionospheric cusp by the HF radars. A clear one-to-one correlation is observed for three successive injections, with a 2-3min delay between the magnetospheric and ionospheric observations. For each event, the drift velocity of reconnected flux tubes (phase velocity) has been compared in the magnetosphere and in the ionosphere. The drift velocity measured at Cluster is of the order of 400-600ms when mapped into the ionosphere, in qualitative agreement with SuperDARN observations. Finally, the reconnected flux tubes are elongated in the north-south direction, with an east-west dimension of 30-60km in the ionosphere from mapped Cluster observations, which is consistent with SuperDARN observations, although slightly smaller.

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