Downstream properties of magnetic flux transfer events

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Dec 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984jgr....8910709s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 89, Dec. 1, 1984, p. 10709-10715.

Physics

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Atmospheric Physics, Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Flux, Space Plasmas, Advection, Density Distribution, Magnetopause, Magnetosheath

Scientific paper

Attention is given to the downstream evolution of the field line tubes known as 'flux transfer events' (FTEs), whose magnetic field and plasma properties are distinct from those of the nearby unmerged magnetosheath and magnetosphere field lines. After the FTE has moved 200 earth radii down the tail, its drained portion reaches 25 earth radii radially outward from the tail boundary. It is suggested that most multiple crossings of the tail boundary observed by spacecraft are encounters with tailward-moving FTEs, thereby explaining both the behavior of boundary normals during multiple crossings and how the sign of the IMF causes the observed dawn-dusk asymmetries in the thickness of the magnetotail boundary layer.

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