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Dec 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.2935h&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 25, p. 2935-2938
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Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Satellite Observation, Space Plasmas, Tearing Modes (Plasmas), Bipolarity, Fourier Analysis, Frequency Ranges, Geophysical Satellites, Power Spectra, Shock Waves, Spectral Signatures, Vortices
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The GEOTAIL magnetic field observations in the earth's magnetotail are examined in terms of a turbulent magnetic reconnection process. It is found that the observed Fourier power spectral density of the turbulent magnetic fields can be approximated by a power-law spectrum which changes its slope around a turnover frequency with 0.04 Hz, in spite of the differences among a wide variety of magnetic perturbations observed in the distant magnetotail plasma sheet. The turbulent magnetic field dta are classified into two cases: one is accompanied with a plasmoid bipolar signature on B(sub z) magnetic field, and the other without the bipolar signature. The higher frequency regions above the turnover frequency always show similar spectral slope in the cases with and without a bipolar signature in B(sub z) magnetic field component, although the spectral feature in the lower frequency regions exhibits differences in appearance. When there is no bipolar signature on B(sub z) magnetic field, the lower frequency range is almost a flat spectrum. On the other hand, the slope of the lower frequency region becomes steep when a large scale bipolar signature is observed. The observations may indicate that: (1) a small-scale tearing mode vortex with the scale of plasma sheet thickness is excited in the magnetotail; and (2) the large-scale plasmoid is coalescently formed from the small-scale tearing mode vortices.
Hoshino Masahiro
Kokubun Susumu
Nishida Akira
Yamamoto Tadahiro
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