Observations of Fte's and Magnetopause Reconnection by Cluster

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May 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusmsm32a..16n&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #SM32A-16

Physics

2700 Magnetospheric Physics, 2724 Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, 2731 Magnetosphere: Outer, 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics

Scientific paper

Reconnection is an important mechanism of transport of energy and plasma from the solar wind to the magnetosphere through the magnetopause. Different kinds of magnetopause reconnection are discussed in the literature. CLUSTER offers the possibility to investigate processes related to reconnection at the high latitude magnetopause near the outer cusp. We observed both FTE's (flux transfer events) and evidences for local reconnection. High energetic particles found by RAPID in the magnetosheath just outside the magnetopause could be identified as FTE's. Occasionally, RAPID observed only particles in the low energy channel perpendicular to the magnetic field while CIS saw at the same time accelerated plasma. This behaviour can be interpreted as a direct indication for current sheet acceleration due to reconnection. Further, the velocity of FTE's was determined.

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