Plasma Sheet
Polar observations of transverse magnetic pulsations initiated at substorm onset in the high latitude plasma sheet
... the plasma sheet field lines must have taken place [Coroniti, ...on plasma sheet field lines prior to lobe field ...the plasma sheet indicates the location of the reconnection of ...
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Evidence for downflows in the narrow plasma sheet of 2017 September 10 and their significance for flare reconnection
... plasma sheet. W18 reported a peak in temperature very close to the sheet ’ s base, which they took as evidence for heating within the ...current sheet ’ s center ( Lin & Forbes 2000; ...
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On the plasma sheet dependence on solar wind and substorms and its role in magnetosphere ionosphere coupling
... central plasma sheet (CPS): electrons are more sensitive to the substorm-related acceleration in the magnetotail than ...of plasma sheet parameter variations during substorms as well as our ...
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Electron Beam Effects on Kinetic Alfven Waves in the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer
... along plasma sheet boun- dary layer, as observed by Polar/Hydra [30], electric field instrument [31] satellite data [14] [15] [28] but not presented any idea about the associated upward and downward ...
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Long-term variations in the plasma sheet ion composition and substorm occurrence over 23 years
... The Geotail satellite continues observations after the study of Nosé et al. (2009) and accumulates ion flux data up to the present (as of December 2015) that cover almost two solar cycles and are very valuable for the ...
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Dissipation scales in the Earth’s plasma sheet estimated from Cluster measurements
... High-speed plasma flows called bursty bulk flows (BBFs) play a key role in the flux and energy transport in the magne- totail (Baumjohann et ...the plasma sheet (Borovsky et ...associated ...
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Shear driven kinetic Alfven wave in the plasma sheet boundary layer
... of plasma and the flow of large amounts of energy in the magnetotail (Keiling et ...The plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL), which is located between the auroral acceleration region and the distant ...
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Characteristics of storm time ion composition in the near Earth plasma sheet using Geotail and RBSP measurements
... The energy density of ions in the near-Earth plasma sheet is studied because (1) RBSP and Geotail cover the different regions in the near-Earth plasma sheet. (2) A quantitative analysis has ...
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Simultaneous THEMIS observations in the near tail portion of the inner and outer plasma sheet flux tubes at substorm onset
... thinning sheet boundary velocity evaluated from the timing at two spacecraft (ISEE-1,2) was consistent with simultaneously observed inward (upward in our case) plas- ma flow velocity [Forbes et ...subsequent ...
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Relationship between wave like auroral arcs and Pi2 disturbances in plasma sheet prior to substorm onset
... examine plasma sheet dynamics using observations of THEMIS multi-spacecraft ...the plasma sheet by examining substorm dipolarization events observed by THEMIS satellites during 2008–2009 which ...
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Fast plasma sheet flows and X line motion in the Earth's magnetotail: results from a global hybrid Vlasov simulation
... has caused the plasma sheet to thin sufficiently. The fast ion bulk flows occur as 1 min timescale intensifications. A dipo- larization front is observed at the leading edge of the earth- ward bursty flow ...
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Near Earth plasma sheet boundary dynamics during substorm dipolarization
... near‑Earth plasma sheet during an intense (AL ~ − 1000 nT) substorm on August 10, 2016, when multiple spacecraft at radial distances between 4 and 15 R E were present in the night‑side ...hemisphere ...
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Cluster observation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the plasma sheet boundary layer
... the plasma and the magnetic field may be regarded as a reali- zation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) ...current sheet is a very thin region where the mag- netic field reverses direction, and is typically ...
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Spectral scaling in the turbulent Earth’s plasma sheet revisited
... The spectral break over the 6–10 s time scales roughly co- incides with the proton gyroperiod of ∼ 5–15 s in the plasma sheet. The inertial range in turbulence is expected to occupy time scales larger than ...
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Cluster observations of a magnetic field cavity in the plasma sheet
... the plasma sheet. While the spacecraft were located in the plasma sheet boundary layer, the magnetic field data from the four spacecraft detected a cavity of close to zero magnetic ...The ...
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Strong southward and northward currents observed in the inner plasma sheet
... inner plasma sheet in the lat- itudinal region between 10 and 30 ◦ N, it is found that, during intense geomagnetic storms, in addition to FACs and the RC, strong southward and northward currents also exist ...
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Study of plasma flow reversal in the near Earth plasma sheet using numerical computations
... The simulation model in this paper is the same as that in our previous simulations of the three-dimensional mag- netic loop (Kondoh et al. 2011) except for the initial thickness of the magnetic lobe region. In this ...
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Contrasting dynamics of electrons and protons in the near Earth plasma sheet during dipolarization
... In the present study we investigate the dynamics and spectra of suprathermal > 50 keV electron and proton fluxes simultaneously observed by the THEMIS P3 probe and the Cluster spacecraft[r] ...
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Large amplitude solitary waves in and near the Earth’s magnetosphere, magnetopause and bow shock: Polar and Cluster observations
... waves at the plasma sheet boundary is faster than the aver- age speed observed in the cusp and at cusp injections. The amplitude increases with both velocity and scale size. These observations are all ...
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Storm time distributions of diffuse auroral electron energy and X ray flux: Comparisons of drift loss simulations with observations
... observations of diffuse auroral precipitation for a particular magnetic storm. While we do not specifically identify the electron scattering mechanisms here, through comparisons of modeled and measured distributions of ...
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