Production of polar cap electron density patches by transient magnetopause reconnection

Details Production of polar cap electron density patches by transient magnetopause reconnection Production of polar cap electron density patches by transient magnetopause reconnection

Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992georl..19.1731l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 19, no. 17, Sept. 4, 1992, p. 1731-1734.

Physics

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Electron Density (Concentration), Flux Transfer Events, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetopause, Plasma Density, Polar Caps, Auroras, Eiscat Radar System (Europe), Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Sunspots

Scientific paper

Some implications are considered of recent theoretical work concerning the excitation of dayside ionospheric convection by magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause. In particular, transient bursts of such reconnection ('flux transfer events') are considered as a cause of polar cap 'patches' of enhanced plasma density. Examples of such patches, as observed at European longitudes by the EISCAT radar, are presented and used to discuss the implications of the proposed mechanism.

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