Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001jgr...106.1917k&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 106, Issue A2, p. 1917-1930
Physics
Plasma Physics
3
Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere-Outer, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, Space Plasma Physics: Magnetic Reconnection
Scientific paper
On January 8, 1996, the Geotail satellite skimmed along the dayside magnetopause from the dawnside to the duskside and observed a series of quasiperiodically recurring pulsed boundary layers in the prenoon (~0900-1000 LT) and the postnoon (~1400-1500 LT) sectors. For both intervals the interplanetary magnetic field observed by the Wind satellite upstream of the bow shock was inferred to be southward from an estimated convection time between Wind and Geotail. During the pulsed events, Geotail observed bipolar signatures in the magnetic field component normal to the nominal magnetopause. In the prenoon sector the bipolar variation had the inward-then-outward polarity, while in the postnoon sector the polarity was opposite (i.e., outward-then-inward). The plasma flows normal to the nominal magnetopause showed bipolar signatures with the inward-then-outward polarity in the prenoon and postnoon sectors. They were accompanied by sunward flows for the lower-density pulsed events and by tailward flows for the higher-density pulsed events. We have interpreted the sunward flow as the local plasma response to a tailward moving flux tube. This may imply that the sunward plasma flow near the magnetopause does not always reflect the direction of the motion of the flux tube. On the basis of these observations, we suggest that the observed pulsed boundary layers are attributed to the passage of a train of flux transfer events propagating tailward.
Cattell Cynthia A.
Kawano Hideaki
Kim Kyung Hyuk
Kokubun Susumu
Lee Dong Hwan
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