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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 16, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.3271410
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magnetic reconnection; plasma instability
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- Austrian Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) [P20131-N16]
- NASA [NAS5-02099]
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Magnetic reconnection (MR) in Earth's magnetotail is usually followed by a systemwide redistribution of explosively released kinetic and thermal energy. Recently, multispacecraft observations from the THEMIS mission were used to study localized explosions associated with MR in the magnetotail so as to understand subsequent Earthward propagation of MR outbursts during substorms. Here we investigate plasma and magnetic field fluctuations/structures associated with MR exhaust and ion-ion kink mode instability during a well-documented THEMIS MR event. Generation, evolution, and fading of kinklike oscillations are followed over a distance of similar to 70 000 km from the reconnection site in the midmagnetotail to the more dipolar region near the Earth. We have found that the kink oscillations driven by different ion populations within the outflow region can be at least 25 000 km from the reconnection site.
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