Double vision: Remote sensing of a flux transfer event with ISEE 1 and 2

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May 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....99.8555w&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol 99, no. A5, p. 8555-8563

Physics

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Flux Transfer Events, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Field Reconnection, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetopause, Remote Sensing, Satellite Observation, Space Plasmas, Spacecraft Trajectories, Data Reduction, Field Aligned Currents, International Sun Earth Explorers, Magnetometers, Plasma Currents

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A flux transfer event recorded by the International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISEE) 1 and 2 spacecraft in the northern hemisphere near local noon is examined using analysis techniques developed recently for determination from single satellite magnetometer data of the orientation and cross-sectional shape of a two-dimensional disturbance moving along the magnetopause. The analysis is performed independently on the magnetic field data recorded by each satellite, enabling us to check the consistency of the results and thus to benchmark the method. The analysis is also extended to utilize the dual magnetometer measurements for determination of the event speed and size (which for a single spacecraft requires use of three-dimensional plasma velocity data to obtain a deHoffmann-Teller frame velocity) and for accommodating acceleration of the magnetopause normal to itself, which results in a curved spacecraft trajectory in the frame of reference moving with the disturbance. The analysis of the disturbance reveals that while its overall size is about 34,000 km in a direction parallel to the magnetopause but perpendicular to the event axis, the actual size of the bulge causing the field disturbance may have been as small as 9000 km with a dimension perpendicular to the magnetopause of the order of 1200 km. The bulge is found to be traveling at a speed of about 140 km/s toward the northern dawn quadrant of the dayside magnetopause. While plasma data from ISEE 2 provides evidence of plasma jetting, which suggests the event may be associated with reconnection, the orientation of the flux tube axis obtained from analysis is significantly different from the expected reconnection line direction. A discussion of possible interpretations of this bulge orientation and motion is provided.

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