Specific Entropy During Substorms Observed With Themis

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm43a1701v&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM43A-1701

Physics

2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2760 Plasma Convection (2463), 2790 Substorms

Scientific paper

We report on changes in the specific entropy of midnight-sector flux tubes during substorms observed with the Themis constellation of satellites. Major violations of the constancy of specific entropy during earthward transport are indicative of the operative substorm mechanism. According to the near-Earth current disruption model, the constancy of specific entropy is violated near-Earth in the vicinity XGSE≍ -10RE. According to the near-Earth neutral-line model, the constancy of specific entropy is violated near the reconnection site, XGSE≍ -20RE. Favorable alignments of two or more of the Themis satellites will allow us to investigate where the specific entropy violations occur.

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