Multi-Satellite Observations at Different Scales of Flux Transfer Events and Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause

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Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsm34a..02a&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SM34A-02

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Plasma Physics

[2723] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetic Reconnection, [2724] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetopause And Boundary Layers, [2736] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosphere/Ionosphere Interactions, [7835] Space Plasma Physics / Magnetic Reconnection

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We report on detailed observations of magnetic reconnection and Flux Transfer Events at the magnetopause. We use observations from the four Cluster spacecraft at different simultaneous separations (about 35 km and 8000 km, i. e. the electron/ion and MHD scales, respectively). At MHD-scales, growing regions interpreted as FTEs with dimensions of a few earth radii are disconnected from a reconnection X-line. At ion and electron scales, at the boundaries of the FTEs, density depletions, strong electric fields, currents and other signatures of reconnection separatrices are observed. The separatrix regions are wider further away from the X-line, in the same way as the FTEs are wider. We discuss the possible direct connection between the FTE separatrix regions and the ionosphere.

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