Kinetic Aspects During a Quasi-Continuous Reconnection Event Tailward of the Cusp: Cluster CIS Observations.

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsm51c0385b&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SM51C-0385

Physics

7835 Magnetic Reconnection, 2724 Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

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During a period of mainly northward interplanetary magnetic field, a reconnection event tailward of the cusp, lasting almost continuously during four hours, was observed by CIS onboard three Cluster spacecraft. Tests on reconnection and considerations on the global reconnection configuration during this event have been the object of a previous study (Retinò et al., submitted to Ann. Geophys. 2004). In the present study kinetic aspects related to reconnection will be presented. The detailed distribution functions of protons and oxygen ions close to the magnetopause will be presented and their characteristics will be discussed.

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