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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 115, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA015526
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [40890164, 40604020, 41031064]
- National Science and Technology Pillar Program of China [2006BAB18B06]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) [2009S1-54]
- STFC [ST/H002480/1]
- STFC [ST/I001042/1, ST/H002480/1, ST/G008493/1, ST/H004130/1, PP/E000983/1, PP/E007929/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H004130/1, ST/G008493/1, ST/H002480/1, ST/I001042/1, PP/E000983/1, PP/E007929/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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While the Cluster spacecraft were located near the high-latitude magnetopause, between 1010 and 1040 UT on 16 January 2004, three typical flux transfer event (FTE) signatures were observed. During this interval, simultaneous and conjugated all-sky camera measurements, recorded at Yellow River Station, Svalbard, are available at 630.0 and 557.7 nm that show poleward-moving auroral forms (PMAFs), consistent with magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause. Simultaneous FTEs seen at the magnetopause mainly move northward, but having duskward (eastward) and tailward velocity components, roughly consistent with the observed direction of motion of the PMAFs in all-sky images. Between the PMAFs meridional keograms, extracted from the all-sky images, show intervals of lower intensity aurora which migrate equatorward just before the PMAFs intensify. This is strong evidence for an equatorward eroding and poleward moving open-closed boundary associated with a variable magnetopause reconnection rate under variable IMF conditions. From the durations of the PMAFs, we infer that the evolution time of FTEs is 5-11 minutes from its origin on the magnetopause to its addition to the polar cap.
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