Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30k..33r&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 11, pp. 33-1, CiteID 1579, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016730
Physics
Plasma Physics
88
Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Sheet, Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection
Scientific paper
During the interval 0947-0951 UT on 1 October 2001, when Cluster was located at X GSM = -16.4 R E near Z GSM = 0 in the pre-midnight magnetotail, the Cluster barycenter crosses the neutral sheet four times. High speed proton flow, with reversal from tailward to Earthward, was detected during the crossings. Using a linear gradient/curl estimator technique we estimate current density and magnetic field curvature within the crossings. These observations exhibit the tailward passage of an X-line over the Cluster tetrahedron. These current sheet has a bifurcated structure in the regions of tailward and earthward flows and a flat and/or slightly bifurcated thin current sheet in between. A distinct quadrupolar Hall magnetic field component was observed.
Balogh André
Baumjohann Wolfgang
Glaßmeier K.-H.
Kistler Lynn
Klecker Berndt
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