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Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufmsm23c..05z&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #SM23C-05
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7807 Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration, 7811 Discontinuities (2109), 7845 Particle Acceleration
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The properties of the high latitude boundaries vary rather dramatically under different solar wind conditions. We present statistical results based on 4 years of data obtained by Cluster when these spacecraft were in the vicinity of the dayside magnetopause. During northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), the interfaces between the magnetosheath and magnetosphere are rather clear. The changes of the plasma density, temperature, velocity, energetic particle flux and magnetic field geometry across the magnetopause under northward IMF were analyzed by superposed epoch analysis. The plasma flow and density decrease and the proton temperature increases across the magnetopause from the magnetosheath into the cusp. Further, during extreme storm times, the cusp is more turbulent than during quiet times and there is no clear plasma density change across the magnetopause. During low density solar wind conditions, the magnitude of the parallel temperature change across the magnetopause is larger than during high density solar wind conditions. And the magnitude of the plasma density and velocity change is smaller than during high density solar wind conditions. On the other hand, the energetic ion spectra (30 keV - 4 MeV) are characterized by a power law and the power law index is found to be closely related to solar wind velocity. The spectra seem to be harder for higher solar wind velocity. The boundaries observed by Double Star in the same MLT but at different altitude than Cluster in 2004 and 2005 are also investigated.
Balogh André
Daly Phil
Fritz Tobias
Zhang Huazhong
Zong Qiugang
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