Journal
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
Volume 41, Issue 10, Pages 1630-1642Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.061
Keywords
current sheet; magnetotail; reconnection; substorm; magnetosphere
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Recent Cluster observations have strongly supported the existence of meso-scale structure in the magnetotail current sheet. In our study, a magnetohydrodynamic simulation event study exhibited current sheet behavior comparable to that seen in the Cluster observations. Geotail and DoubleStar observations also show that the simulation is providing a realistic representation of the magnetosphere during the period of interest; that is, when the current sheet evidently becomes bifurcated. The magnetohydrodynamic simulation allows us to place the local observations into a global contest. It shows that the observations can be explained in terms of localized reconnection tailward of the Cluster location and the formation of a flux rope nearby. The simulation also features wave-like structure across the current sheet. (C) 2007 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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