Plasmasheet Motions in the Distant Magnetotail Determined by 4-Point Ion Measurements: RAPID/Cluster

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Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmsm21b..01d&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SM21B-01

Physics

2720 Energetic Particles, Trapped, 2744 Magnetotail, 2764 Plasma Sheet

Scientific paper

At the end of August, 2001, the 4 Cluster satellites made their first deep tail pass with apogee along the GSE X axis at -19 Re, crossing from north to south with a relatively uniform separation of { ~}2000~km. The energetic ion spectrometer part of RAPID (E>30 keV) observed entry and exits of the plasmasheet with significant time differences between the spacecraft. Furthermore, 3D distributions of the ion flux allow remote sensing of the particle boundary via finite ion gyroradius. Together, the timing differences and the 3D remote sensing permit the motion and orientation of the dynamical plasmasheet passages to be well determined.

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