The North-south Structure of a Flux Rope From Cluster Observations

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsm44b..07l&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SM44B-07

Physics

2744 Magnetotail, 2764 Plasma Sheet, 2790 Substorms

Scientific paper

The encounter of a flux rope (FR) in the magnetotail by the four Cluster spacecraft during a substorm is investigated in detail. The FR was aligned with its principal axis closely along the dawn-dusk direction. Based on the observed x-component of the magnetic field, the four spacecraft traversed the FR at different distances from the neutral sheet. This fortuitous situation reveals the north-south structure of the FR, showing the existence of a velocity shear. The relationship between the strength of the embedded current density from the curlometer method and the velocity shear within the FR will be discussed.

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