Physics
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusmsm22a..12b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #SM22A-12
Physics
2744 Magnetotail, 2753 Numerical Modeling, 2772 Plasma Waves And Instabilities, 7835 Magnetic Reconnection
Scientific paper
Utilizing CLUSTER-multipoint observations during tail passages of the four s/c we found evidence for thin current sheet traversals. At the center of the sheet a plasma wave was found to propagate in the current direction. We compare the wave features with signatures of thin current sheet instabilities and reconnection which we obtained by kinetic plasma simulation. It appears that several instability signatures predicted by simulation can be found in CLUSTER observations. Thus the observations seem to indicate that thin current sheets develop an unstable wave mode propagating in the current direction. In the observation the current instability was followed by an outbreak of reconnection.
Balogh André
Buechner Joerg
Daly Phil
Fornacon K.-
Glassmeier K.-
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