The Plasma Sheet
Oscillatory magnetic flux tube slippage in the plasma sheet
... of sheet crossings as some proper wave mode of the plasma sheet, then the typical spa- tial amplitude and wavelength are of the order of several R E ...two sheet crossings (see also discussion ...
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Multi-scale magnetic field intermittence in the plasma sheet
... P i δB x 2 (t i , τ ) . (3) We have to mention, however, some essential limitations of this approach when a separation of spatial and temporal vari- ations is eventually addressed. A time series obtained from a single ...
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Origin of some anisotropic tailward flows in the plasma sheet
... the plasma mantle increases with distance downtail, from 18% near the Earth, to about 50% near 205 R E ...the plasma sheet is detected, including the CPS and PSBL, decrease with in- creasing tailward ...
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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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Cluster and TC-1 observation of magnetic holes in the plasma sheet
... of plasma sheet magnetic holes, based on multi-spacecraft timing calculations of velocity and propa- gation at ion flow speed, indicates that most structures are smaller than the proton Larmor ...the ...
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Occurrence rate of dipolarization fronts in the plasma sheet: Cluster observations
... If at least 2 DFs, which belong to a same joint-observation DF event, are simultaneously in the same bin, we only count one DF event for that bin. Consequently, there is a total of 525 DF events in all bins. The ...
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Cross-tail velocity component in the plasma sheet fast flows
... The analysis of the large V y and V x spatial distributions in the previous section showed that for the fixed V thr the proba- bility of large |V y | values is much smaller than that of large | V x | (∼10-fold for V thr ...
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Localized fast flow disturbance observed in the plasma sheet and in the ionosphere
... isolated plasma sheet flow burst took place at 22:02 UT, 1 September 2002, when the Clus- ter footpoint was located within the area covered by the Magnetometers-Ionospheric Radars-All-sky Cameras Large ...
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Cluster observation of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the plasma sheet boundary layer
... the plasma sheet boundary layer on a spatial scale of about 10,000 ...observed plasma sheet turbulence event shows anisotropy in the wavevector domain with a spectral extension perpendicular ...
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Indirect mapping of the source of the oppositely directed fast plasma flows in the plasma sheet onto the auroral display
... including plasma inflow into the dif- fusion region and inversion of the magnetic field curvature during transition from tailward to earthward ...fast plasma flow reversal events in the plasma ...
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Shear driven kinetic Alfven wave in the plasma sheet boundary layer
... the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) were investigated for substorm events in the presence of a parallel electric field using the general loss-cone distribution ...
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The storm time central plasma sheet
... The plasma sheet plays a key role during mag- netic storms because it is the bottleneck through which large amounts of magnetic flux that have been eroded from the dayside magnetopause have to be returned ...
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Spatial structure of plasma flow associated turbulence in the Earth’s plasma sheet
... the plasma sheet (Borovsky and Funsten, ...the plasma sheet substantiates a sta- tistical approach including the estimation of experimentally accessible statistical ...
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Observations of electron vorticity in the inner plasma sheet
... crossing times, an identifying event number for each cross- ing, the PEACE data product used to estimate the moments on each spacecraft, the spacecraft on which ASPOC was ac- tive for all or part of the event, the ...
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On the problem of Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer identification from plasma moments in Earth’s magnetotail
... the Plasma Sheet (PS) – the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer (PSBL) – using ion moments and magnetic field data often arises in works devoted to sta- tistical studies of various PSBL ...that ...
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Study of plasma flow reversal in the near Earth plasma sheet using numerical computations
... near-Earth plasma sheet associated with a rebound of the earthward bursty bulk flow (BBF) is investigated using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics simulations of magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail ...
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Geomagnetic activity effects on plasma sheet energy conversion
... Cluster plasma sheet data to investigate what happens to localized energy conversion regions (ECRs) in the plasma sheet during times of high magnetospheric ac- ...the plasma ...
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Average plasma sheet polytropic index as observed by THEMIS
... the plasma sheet and might contain a zoo of dynamic structures intrinsic to the tail, it seems nat- ural to assume that the contributions to the point cloud fea- ture different specific entropies, leading ...
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Double discontinuities at the magnetotail plasma sheet-lobe boundary
... the plasma sheet-lobe boundary is not always followed by a rotational ...the plasma sheet at t = 15 : 49, X GSM = −93 R E , Y GSM = 14 R E , and Z GSM = −3 R E ...
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Bi-directional electrons in the near-Earth plasma sheet
... the bi-directional electrons in the PSBL are produced near the distant neutral line. It should be noted that there is a second peak of the oc- currence rate of bi-directional electrons in the outermost lay- ers of the ...
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