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Scientific paper
Oct 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004ssrv..113...77o&link_type=abstract
Space Science Reviews, v. 113, Issue 1, p. 77-96 (2004).
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Substorms, Substorm Onset, Auroral Breakup, Pseudobreakup, Fast Plasma Flows, Plasmasheet, Magnetotail
Scientific paper
Causality between near-Earth and midtail substorm processes is one of the most controversial issues about the substorm trigger mechanism. The currently most popular model, the outside-in model, assumes that near-Earth reconnection is initiated in the midtail region before substorm onset and that the associated flow burst causes tail current disruption in the near-Earth region. However, there remain some outstanding issues that may serve as critical tests of this model. The present article reviews recent satellite and ground observations addressing three such critical issues with a focus on substorm-related auroral features. First, near-Earth reconnection, even if it reaches the lobe magnetic field, does not necessarily trigger a global substorm, but it is often related to a pseudobreakup. This fact suggests that there is an additional or alternative condition for substorm development. Secondly, although there appears to be one-to-one correspondence between flow bursts in the plasma sheet and equatorward-moving auroral structures (auroral streamers), no such auroral feature that can be associated with the fast plasma flow can be identified prior to auroral breakups. On the other hand, the flow burst is widely regarded as a manifestation of reconnection and therefore, according to the outside-in model, should be created in the near-Earth plasma sheet before substorm onset. Finally, auroral arcs poleward of a breakup arc are not affected until the front of auroral intensification reaches those arcs. The last two points suggest that if substorm is triggered as the outside-in model describes, the ionosphere is electromagnetically detached from the magnetosphere, which, however, has not been addressed theoretically. Thus, it should be crucial for a better understanding of the substorm trigger process to implement the magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling in future modeling efforts and to address those basic issues as a guide for critically evaluating each model.
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