[PDF] Top 20 A statistical study on the shape and position of the magnetotail neutral sheet

... Global shape of the magnetotail neutral sheet Figure 6 shows the shape of the neutral sheet under differ- ent dipole tilt ...The position between the two colors is ... See full document

... × 180 π , where B x , B y , B z are the three magnetic field components in GSM ∗ coordinates. We find that 61.70 % of the events have an elevation angle larger than 45 ◦ , and only 2.48 % events have an elevation angle ... See full document

... over, in some cases, a combination of earthward and tailward streaming (reflected) beamlets is observed. In these cases, the distribution function has a ring-like shape, as in Fig. 4. We have analysed 83 cases of ... See full document

... 1 (interval 2) (Fig. 1a, b). The spacecrafts were at the geocen- tric distances 11–17 R E in the anti-sunward direction in the pre-midnight sector (Fig. 2). The event of 2015 satisfies the most the conditions of dipo- ... See full document

... the shape of the tail cur- rent sheet and its dynamics has been suggested in earlier work by Kivelson and Hughes ...near-Earth neutral line and thus results in substorm onset triggered by a smaller ... See full document

... rent sheet in the Earth’s magnetotail is one of the most in- teresting questions of magnetospheric dynamics yet to be ...to study the charac- teristics and source of current sheet flapping in ... See full document

... the magnetotail in the presence of a stationary magnetic turbulence ...current sheet with different ...current sheet crossings of 29 August 2001, and 26 September 2001, were used to set simulation ... See full document

... to study electric current geometry during flapping, and to estimate a flapping waves ...a statistical ba- sis as well as in the event analyzes, it was found that the magnetic field variations with an ... See full document

... that position drifts upward (away from the plasma-sheet center), where we find a weak dawnward elec- tric field from t=−3 min to t=−1 min, corresponding to this ... See full document

... the magnetotail lobes. In this paper, we present a statistical study of plasma convection in the lobes for dif- ferent directions of the interplanetary magnetic field and for different geomagnetic ... See full document

... leaf shape. Discussion When specific genes that control morphological shape and physiological function are identified, we are in an excellent position to address fundamental questions related to ... See full document

... a statistical study of different plasma parameters measured in the lobe, the PSBL and the adjacent PS or outer PS regions, which were predetermined by an eye inspection of ion veloc- ity distribution ... See full document

... Received: 8 February 2011 – Revised: 12 August 2011 – Accepted: 26 August 2011 – Published: 8 September 2011 Abstract. A study of dipolarization fronts of the Earth’s magnetotail has been performed using ... See full document

... current sheet thickness and distance directly, without associ- ating time series data with spatial ...current sheet model may be analytical as well as ...current sheet was made in the present ... See full document

... 938 C. L. Cai et al.: Cluster observations on the thin current sheet in the magnetotail Fig. 10. Components of magnetic field for four satellites and the current density. Four large-amplitude magnetic ... See full document

... Both of these exaggerated positions can cause changes to the structure of the spinal curves potentially causing pain as well altered movement patterns. For example it is generally accepted that when the low back (lumbar ... See full document

... the magnetotail plasma sheet-lobe boundary tary space from the Wind spacecraft (Whang et ...Earth’s magnetotail has also been reported (Whang et ...the magnetotail region, they could be a ... See full document

... 6 Summary and conclusion The aim of the present work was to investigate the total avail- able THEMIS data to compile a list of flow events in Earth’s magnetotail. A total of almost 16 000 events are found, many of ... See full document

... the 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 ...current sheet ... See full document

... Besides my parents, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisors and my friends Dr. Nick Pears and Dr. William Smith for the continuous support of my PhD study and research, for their patience, ... See full document