Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.2159p&link_type=abstract
(ISEE Magnetopause Workshop, Garching, West Germany, Oct. 1980.) Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Apr. 1, 1982, p. 2159
Physics
218
Geomagnetism, Magnetic Flux, Magnetopause, Plasma Diagnostics, Space Plasmas, International Sun Earth Explorers, Lines Of Force, Magnetic Signatures, Magnetosheath, Temporal Distribution
Scientific paper
Plasma and magnetic field data from ISEE 1 and 2 are examined for 5 passes of the magnetopause region at 20 and 40 deg northern latitudes, and are presented in terms of moments of the distribution function, calculated from two-dimensional or three-dimensional data. Flux transfer events are characterized by a mixture of magnetosheath and magnetospheric particles, which supports the hypothesis that flux transfer events represent encounters of reconnected flux tubes. An excess pressure appears to be balanced by the tension of the ambient magnetic field lines as they are draped around the reconnected flux tube, and the different observed magnetic field signatures are consistent with expectations for encounters of the flux tubes at different relative locations. It is suggested that increased flow speeds are caused by continued reconnection at the low-latitude boundaries of the flux tubes.
Bame J. Jr. S.
Gosling Jack T.
Haerendel Gerhard
Papamastorakis Ioannis
Paschmann Goetz
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