The Giacobini-Zinner magnetotail - Tail configuration and current sheet

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Feb 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....92.1139m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, Feb. 1, 1987, p. 1139-1152. DOE-sponsored research.

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Comet Tails, Current Sheets, Giacobini-Zinner Comet, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Field Inversions, Cometary Magnetospheres, Electron Density (Concentration), Electron Energy, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Wind Velocity, Comets, Giacobini-Zinner, Magnetotail, Current Sheet, Comet Tails, Ions, Plasma, Electrons, Magnetic Fields, Ice Mission, Geometry, Temperature, Velocity, Density, Source, Upstream, Gradients, Size, Ionopause, Flow, Physical Properties, Calcula

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The high-resolution plasma electron and magnetic field data sets from the ICE tail traversal of comet Giacobini-Zinner have been combined to make a detailed study of the draped Giacobini-Zinner magnetotail in general, and its field-reversing current sheet in particular. The geometry of the magnetotail at the time of the ICE crossing is determined and is shown to be consistent with a circular tail cross section rotated 10°.5 in the normal sense of aberration and 9°.9 above the ecliptic plane, bisected by a cross-tail current sheet which is rotated 43° out of the ecliptic about the solar wind velocity vector. MHD continuity, momentum, and energy equations are combined with the plasma and field observations to determine unmeasured plasma properties at ICE and upstream at the average point along each streamline where the cometary ions are picked up.

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