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ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
卷 41, 期 10, 页码 1598-1610出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.04.018
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magnetosphere; plasma sheet boundary layer; ion beams; non-adiabatic acceleration; global MHD simulations
On October 8, 2004, the Cluster and Double Star spacecraft crossed the near-Earth (12-19 R-E) magnetotail neutral sheet during the recovery phase of a small, isolated substorm. Although they were separated in distance by similar to 7 R-E and in time by similar to 30 min, both Cluster and Double Star observed steady, but highly structured Earthward moving > 1000 km/s high speed H+ beams in the PSBL. This paper utilizes a global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation driven by Wind spacecraft solar wind input to model the large-scale structure of the PSBL and large-scale kinetic (LSK) particle tracing calculations to investigate the similarities and differences in the properties of the observed beams. This study finds that the large-scale shape of the PSBL is determined by the MHD configuration. On smaller scales, the LSK calculations, in good qualitative agreement with both Cluster and Double Star observations, demonstrated that the PSBL is highly structured in both time and space, on time intervals of less than 2 min, and spatial distances of the order of 0.2-0.5 R-E. This picture of the PSBL is different from the ordered and structured region previously reported in observations. (c) 2007 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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