On the use of photometer data to map dynamics of the magnetotail current sheet during substorm growth phase

Details On the use of photometer data to map dynamics of the magnetotail current sheet during substorm growth phase On the use of photometer data to map dynamics of the magnetotail current sheet during substorm growth phase

Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000jgr...10527673w&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 105, Issue A12, p. 27673-27684

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena, Magnetospheric Physics: Energetic Particles, Precipitating, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, Magnetospheric Physics: Storms And Substorms

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The Canadian Auroral Network for the OPEN Program Unified Study (CANOPUS) is a large-scale ground-based instrument array of remote sensing equipment monitoring the high-latitude ionosphere from the north central to the northwest portion of North America. It provides realtime coverage of auroral events such as magnetospheric substorms. In this paper the variation of magnetotail thickness is estimated during substorm growth phase by using a simple magnetic field model and data from the meridian scanning photometers in the CANOPUS array. An important parameter in the modeling process is the κ parameter, defined as the square root of the minimum curvature radius to maximum Larmor radius ratio. Through use of this parameter we are able to grossly determine the expected proton precipitation regions in the ionosphere. Two examples presented (February 9, 1995, and March 9, 1995) show that crosstail current sheet thinning from 2-0.1 RE can occur during the course of a growth phase. Within the framework of our model it is demonstrated that the magnetotail field line stretching, associated with thinning of the current sheet, is correlated with the equatorward motion of Hβ auroral emissions. Also demonstrated is the Earthward movement of the inner edge of the plasma sheet to within 6 RE.

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