Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3801107y&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 1, CiteID L01107
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Substorms, Magnetospheric Physics: Numerical Modeling, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Sheet, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835)
Scientific paper
In the late stage of a substorm growth phase, the magnetic field in the near-Earth region is highly stretched. We assume that such conditions can lead to violation of the frozen-in-flux condition, allowing transfer of plasma from one flux tube to another and creating a plasma blob tailward of a plasma bubble. In this letter we present results of a simulation where we artificially impose a bubble-blob pair by introducing a disturbance in PV5/3 in the near-Earth plasma sheet. In the subsequent evolution, as calculated by the equilibrium version of the Rice Convection Model (RCM-E), the bubble surges earthward and the blob moves tailward, while the magnetic field between them weakens and the localized cross-tail current density increases. We speculate that, at substorm onset, there could be a positive feedback in which the breakdown of the frozen-in condition would increasingly make the current sheet thinner until magnetic reconnection occurs.
Toffoletto Frank R.
Wolf Richard A.
Yang Jaek-Jin
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