The superdense plasma sheet in the magnetosphere during high-speed-stream-driven storms: Plasma transport timescales

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Jul 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009jastp..71.1045d&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 71, Issue 10-11, p. 1045-1058.

Physics

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Plasma Sheet, Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, Corotating Streams, Magnetosphere: Inner

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The superdense plasma sheet in the Earth's magnetosphere is studied via a superposition of multispacecraft data collected during 124 high-speed-stream-driven storms. The storm onsets tend to occur after the passage of the IMF sector reversal and before the passage of the stream interface, and the storms continue on for days during the passage of the high-speed stream. The superdense phase of the plasma sheet is found to be a common feature of high-speed-stream-driven storms, commencing before the onset of the storm and persisting for about 1 day into the storm. A separate phenomenon, the extra-hot phase of the plasma sheet, commences at storm onset and persists for several days during the storm. The superdense plasma sheet originates from the high-density compressed slow and fast solar wind of the corotating interaction region on the leading edge of the high-speed stream. Tracking the motion of this dense plasma into and through the magnetosphere, plasma transport times are estimated. Transport from the nightside of the dipole to the dayside requires about 10 h. The occurrences of both the superdense plasma sheet and the extra-hot plasma sheet have broad implications for the physics of geomagnetic storms.

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