A multisatellite study of a pseudo-substorm onset in the near-Earth magnetotail

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Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9819355o&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A11, p. 19,355-19,367

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Disrupting, Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Field Configurations, Polar Substorms, Ampte (Satellites), Field Aligned Currents, Longitude, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Spatial Distribution

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This paper reports the multisatellite and ground observations of two pseudo-substorm onset events that occurred successively at 0747 UT and 0811 UT, May 30, 1985, with more attention to the 0747 UT onset. The distinguishing features of the 0747 UT event are as follows. (1) The substorm-associated tail reconfiguration started in a very localized region in the near-Earth magnetotail. (2) The magnitude of the current disruption decreased markedly as the disruption region expanded tailward. (3) On the ground the onset of a very small negative bay (approx. 40 nT) was observed simultaneously with the onset of the current disruption, but over a much wider local time sector than the near-Earth tail reconfiguration. Positive bay onsets at mid-latitudes also had a longitudinally wide distribution. From these features we infer than in the present event the current disruption took place filamentarily near AMPTE/CCE at approx. 8.8 RE. It is also inferred that pseudo-substorm onsets are distinguished from standard substorm onsets by the absence of a global expansion of the current disruption, and that the spatial scales of the onset region in the magnetosphere is not a major difference between the two. The present study suggests that the spatial distribution of the magnetic distortion before onsets is an important factor to determine the expansion scale of the current disruption. It is also suggested that the current disruption is basically an internal process of the magnetosphere.

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