Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agufmsm12a..03e&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #SM12A-03
Physics
2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, 2744 Magnetotail, 2764 Plasma Sheet, 7835 Magnetic Reconnection (2723, 7526)
Scientific paper
Magnetic reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail plays a key role in controlling the dynamics of the Earth's magnetosphere. Recent results from Cluster multi-spacecraft analysis have raised important questions about the traditional interpretation of reconnection-associated phenomena observed by single spacecraft. Cluster has shown that observations conventionally interpreted as a single X-line can correspond to multiple X-line structure [Eastwood et al, 2005]. Single point observations cannot distinguish between these two possibilities, and previous interpretations have invoked the simpler picture. This case study is put into a wider context by examining the plasma dynamics following this particular event. We also consider how common these observations are in the Cluster dataset, and discuss the implications for previous single spacecraft studies.
Balogh André
Dandouras Iannis
Eastwood Jonathan P.
Lavraud Benoit
Lucek Elisabeth A.
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