[PDF] Top 20 Dynamics of thin current sheets: Cluster observations

... relative Cluster positions ...i.e., Cluster 1, then 2, then 4, and finally 3, is consistent with the relative order of the Cluster positions from north to south most of the time, suggesting that the ... See full document

... Abstract. Dynamics of the magnetotail plasma sheet (PS) features nonlinear structures on two totally different ...very thin current sheets (CS) on kinetic scale of the ion ...very thin ... See full document

... ion-scale current sheets with strong electron currents and the guide field having a bell-shape ...magnetotail current sheet by the Cluster mission in ...these current sheets is ... See full document

... Hall dynamics of a thin MP current sheet is out- ...and Cluster (Nikutowski et ...small current scale, which can be described not only in reconnection-like approximations, but also in ... See full document

... of thin anisotropic current sheets with a finite value of the nor- mal magnetic field, are investigated in this ...in thin anisotropic current ...by Cluster is ...the ... See full document

... It is indicated that the ion anisotropy and nongyrotropy are responsible for those new equilibrium features that represent deviations from the conventional Harris model. Measure- ments show that an embedded proton TCS ... See full document

... Unlike most studies of reconnection, which are of its steady state, the results presented here are expected to be more prominent during the initial time dependent phase of reconnection after its onset in an electron ... See full document

... Zelenyi et al., 1997; Chen et al., 1997; Russell, 2000; Dunlop et al., 2000; Merka et al., 2000; Wing et al., 2001; Sandahl, 2002). The Cluster mission (Escoubet et al., 2001), consisting of four satellites in a ... See full document

... Despite the general statistical agreement, curlometer and particle currents may differ substantially for some events. Another difficult issue is a balance of electron and proton contributions to current. Though ... See full document

... To investigate further the structure of the off-diagonal pressure tensor components, Figure 5.35 and Figure 5.36 shows filled contour plots of the P xy,e and P yz,e components of the electron pressure tensor zoomed in ... See full document

... magnetotail current sheet by the Cluster spacecraft during July–October 2001 at a geocentric distance of 19 R E are examined in detail to ad- dress the structure of the current ...electric ... See full document

... the current layer, generates a local nor- mal field component B z and, by producing short wavelength magnetic vortices and vertexes, it may ignite reconnection on a time scale of tens of seconds to few minutes in ... See full document

... rent sheets with observations, in particular in the magneto- sphere where in-situ measurements are ...the CLUSTER-mission, which are carried out simultaneously with four ...the ... See full document

... from observations that thin current sheets are formed in the near-Earth magnetotail just prior to substorm onsets (Kaufmann 1987; Sergeev et ...thinning current sheets has been ... See full document

... with observations We use events from several published earlier investigations to perform comparisons with our ...cross-tail current, flowing more ...the Cluster spacecraft location in the morn- ing ... See full document

... by Cluster around the MP TCS be probably connected to such a dayside reconnection site, although the same electron data show un- expected ...that Cluster is close to a reconnection diffusion ... See full document

... a current As we mentioned in the introduction, in order to model the dynamics of an arbitrarily thin sheet of vorticity we represent the fluid in terms of distribution-valued forms, ...vortex ... See full document

... tilted current sheet typically appears along with the oc- currence of tail current sheet flapping ...Six current sheet flapping motion events have been analyzed in this re- ...the current ... See full document

... the Cluster in situ sampling of |J | and therefore the current density does not re- spond significantly to changing ...when Cluster samples that bin, hence the effect is also ...overall ... See full document

... dynamic observations of domain structures and domain walls of electrical steel sheets are necessary to understand eddy current and hysteresis ...steel sheets under the application of an AC ... See full document