Anatomy of a flux transfer event seen by Cluster

Details Anatomy of a flux transfer event seen by Cluster Anatomy of a flux transfer event seen by Cluster

Jun 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004georl..3111803s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 31, Issue 11, CiteID L11803

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Plasma Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection

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Data from Cluster are used to study the structure of a flux transfer event (FTE), seen near the northern cusp. We employ Grad-Shafranov reconstruction, using measured fields from all four spacecraft to produce a map of the FTE cross section. The FTE consists of a flux rope of approximate size 1RE and irregular shape, embedded in the magnetopause. Its axis $\hat{\bf{z} is tangential to the magnetopause. Since no reconnection signatures are seen, the map provides a fossil record of the prior reconnection process that created the flux rope: the strong core field indicates that it was generated by component merging. An average reconnection electric field >=0.18 mV/m must have occurred in the burst of reconnection that created the FTE. The total axial ($\hat{\bf{z}) current and magnetic flux in the FTE were -0.66 MAmp and +2.07 MWeber, respectively.

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