Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992p%26ss...40.1551s&link_type=abstract
Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 40, no. 11, p. 1551-1572.
Physics
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Flux Transfer Events, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Flux, Magnetic Storms, Plasma Layers, Satellite Observation, Earth Observations (From Space), Electric Field Strength, High Resolution, Magnetic Fields
Scientific paper
The short-term (about 1 min) events during two consecutive substorms on March 23 1979 have been studied using high time resolution measurements of magnetic and electric fields and of the kiloelectronvolt electron flux at X about -21 R(e). Data obtained make it possible to describe the localized magnetic structures transported or propagated within the plasma sheet and to identify these events as plasma sheet nightside magnetic flux transfer events (NFTEs). The best examples of the NFTEs found so far are all observed in a thin portion of plasma sheet where the contraction of the reconnected field lines dominates over the oppositely directed pressure gradient force. Systematic differences in the magnetic variations observed at ISEE-1 and 2 indicate current concentration at the outer plasma sheet boundary during the passage of a NFTE.
Elphic Richard C.
Mozer Forrest S.
Saint-Marc A.
Sauvaud Jean-Andre
Sergeev Aleksandre V.
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