Predicted signatures of pulsed reconnection in ESR data

Details Predicted signatures of pulsed reconnection in ESR data Predicted signatures of pulsed reconnection in ESR data

Dec 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996angeo..14.1246d&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae, vol. 14, Issue 12, pp.1246-1256

Physics

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Early in 1996, the latest of the European incoherent-scatter (EISCAT) radars came into operation on the Svalbard islands. The EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) has been built in order to study the ionosphere in the northern polar cap and in particular, the dayside cusp. Conditions in the upper atmosphere in the cusp region are complex, with magnetosheath plasma cascading freely into the atmosphere along open magnetic field lines as a result of magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause. A model has been developed to predict the effects of pulsed reconnection and the subsequent cusp precipitation in the ionosphere. Using this model we have successfully recreated some of the major features seen in photometer and satellite data within the cusp. In this paper, the work is extended to predict the signatures of pulsed reconnection in ESR data when the radar is pointed along the magnetic field. It is expected that enhancements in both electron concentration and electron temperature will be observed. Whether these enhancements are continuous in time or occur as a series of separate events is shown to depend critically on where the open/closed field-line boundary is with respect to the radar. This is shown to be particularly true when reconnection pulses are superposed on a steady background rate. Acknowledgements. We would like to thank the director and staff of EISCAT for the data used in this study. EISCAT is supported by the scientific research councils of Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the UK. We would like to express our special thanks to A. P. van Eyken and U. P. Løvhaug for their cooperation and assistance in running the IPS campaigns and to W. P. Wilkinson for discussions on fast-stream/slow-stream interaction regions. Two of us (ARB and PJM) are supported by PPARC. Topical Editor D. Alcaydé thanks J. F. Mckenzie and M. Pick for their help in evaluating this paper.--> Correspondence to: A. R. Breen-->

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