Near-Simultaneous Flux Rope Observations With Cluster and Double Star

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsm51a1393w&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SM51A-1393

Physics

2723 Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2764 Plasma Sheet, 2790 Substorms

Scientific paper

We present near-simultaneous observations of magnetic flux ropes in the tail of the Earth's magnetosphere on 7 August 2004 at 2312 UT made by the Cluster and Double Star TC-1 spacecraft. The spacecraft, located at (- 16.3, -8.7, 0.10)RE GSM and (-10.3, -7.11, 0.81)RE GSM respectively, were separated by 6.3RE. The observations are interpreted as two separate flux ropes existing in the tail simultaneously, to the best our our knowledge these are the first such observations. Minimum variance analysis is used to determine the orientations of the flux ropes, both of which lie approximately in the plane of the tail current sheet, itself orientated differently at the locations of the different spacecraft. The formation region of these flux ropes is inferred to be inside the orbit of Cluster.

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