Cluster and Double Star Multipoint Observations of a Plasma Bubble

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm31b1717w&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM31B-1717

Physics

2721 Field-Aligned Currents And Current Systems (2409), 2748 Magnetotail Boundary Layers, 2764 Plasma Sheet

Scientific paper

Depleted flux tubes, or plasma bubbles, are one possible explanation of bursty bulk flows, transient high speed flows thought to be responsible for a large proportion of flux transport in the magnetotail. Here we report observations of one such plasma bubble, made by the four Cluster spacecraft and Double Star TC-2 around 14:00 UT on 21 September 2005, a period of southward, but BY-dominated IMF. In particular the first direct observations of return flows around the edges of a plasma bubble, and the first observations plasma bubble features within 8 RE, consistent with MHD simulations (Birn et al., 2004) are presented. The implications of the presence of a strong BY in the IMF and magnetotail on the propagation of the plasma bubble and development of the associated current systems in the magnetotail and ionosphere are discussed.

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