Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3219105b&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 19, CiteID L19105
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Sheet, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail
Scientific paper
We report a clear encounter by the Cluster spacecraft of a magnetic reconnection diffusion region in the near-Earth magnetotail at XGSM = -17.5 RE on September 19, 2003. In addition to the reversals of the plasma jets and of GSM-z (~normal) component of the magnetic field, clear signatures of Hall quadrupolar (GSM-y) magnetic fields as well as bipolar Hall (GSM-z) electric fields with amplitude up to 80 mV/m directed toward the neutral sheet in both hemispheres were observed. Furthermore, large fluctuations in the electric field perpendicular to the magnetic field with amplitudes reaching 65 mV/m were observed near the separatrices in both hemispheres and in association with local density minima.
Balogh André
Borg Lori A.
McFadden James P.
Mouikis Christopher
Mozer Forrest S.
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