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Configuration of the Earth’s Magnetotail Current Sheet
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 The spatial scale and intensity of Earth’s magnetotail current sheet determine the magnetotail configuration, which is critical to one of the most energetically powerful phenomena in the Earth’s magnetosphere, substorms.
Andrei Runov +2 more
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The Flapping Motion of Mercury's Magnetotail Current Sheet: MESSENGER Observations
Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 The flapping motion of Mercury's magnetotail current sheet is investigated based on the observations of MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER). The typical flapping period in Mercury's magnetotail is much shorter (~13 s)
, Lihui Chai, Chi Zhang
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Three-dimensional network of filamentary currents and super-thermal electrons during magnetotail magnetic reconnection [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Magnetotail reconnection plays an important role in explosive energy conversion. Here, the authors show direct evidence of super-thermal electrons up to 300 keV within X-line region in Earth’s magnetotail, indicating effective electron acceleration due ...
Xinmin Li +7 more
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Comparative magnetotail flapping: an overview of selected events at Earth, Jupiter and Saturn [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2013 A comparison of magnetotail flapping (the up-and-down wavy motion) between the Earth and the two giant planets Jupiter and Saturn has been performed through investigation of the current sheet normal of the magnetotail. Magnetotail flapping is commonly
M. Volwerk +15 more
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Mesoscale Features in the Global Geospace Response to the March 12, 2012 Storm
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 The geospace response to coronal mass ejections includes phenomena across many regions, from reconnection at the dayside and magnetotail, through the inner magnetosphere, to the ionosphere, and even to the ground.
Mayowa Adewuyi +5 more
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Atmosphere, 2023 We report the MMS observations of the intense spikes of field-aligned current (FAC) produced by magnetic reconnection at the plasma sheet (PS) field lines.
Makar V. Leonenko +2 more
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Estimates of magnetotail reconnection rate based on IMAGE FUV and EISCAT measurements [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2005 Dayside merging between the interplanetary and terrestrial magnetic fields couples the solar wind electric field to the Earth's magnetosphere, increases the magnetospheric convection and results in efficient transport of solar wind energy into the ...
N. Østgaard +8 more
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A Story of Developing the Idea of Plasma-Sheet Flow Braking
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 This paper reports a story of developing the idea of Earthward ion flow braking in the near-Earth plasma sheet and its relationship with substorm onset processes.
Kazuo Shiokawa
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Earth and Planetary Physics, 2021 With conjunction observations of electromagnetic fields and plasma from Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorm (THEMIS) in the near-Earth magnetotail, we investigate the spatial and temporal properties of substorm ...
SuPing Duan +3 more
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PIC Simulations of Overstretched Ion‐Scale Current Sheets in the Magnetotail
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Onset of reconnection in the tail requires the current sheet thickness to be of the order of the ion thermal gyroradius or smaller. However, existing isotropic plasma models cannot explain the formation of such thin sheets at distances where the X‐lines ...
H. Arnold, M. I. Sitnov
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