Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3211105e&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 11, CiteID L11105
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Sheet
Scientific paper
Observations of the Earth's magnetotail made by the four Cluster spacecraft on October 2 2003 are presented. Multi-spacecraft analysis is used to show that the variations in field and flow observed in the vicinity of the magnetotail current sheet are most consistent with a series of two active reconnection sites bounding an Earthward moving flux rope. We demonstrate that a single spacecraft analysis of the same data leads to the incorrect conclusion that a single X-line is moving tailward. The implications of this in relation to the interpretation of single spacecraft observations are outlined. These results show that reconnection can occur simultaneously at different points in the near-Earth magnetotail current sheet, providing (further) important experimental validation of multiple X - line reconnection theories on the mesoscale (tens of ion inertial length) level.
Balogh André
Dandouras Iannis
Eastwood Jonathan P.
Goldstein Michel L.
Imber Suzanne
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