The auroral signature of earthward flow bursts observed in the magnetotail

By E. Zesta, L. Lyons, E. Donovan. 2000

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Scale‐free statistics of spatiotemporal auroral emissions as depicted by POLAR UVI images: Dynamic magnetosphere is an avalanching system (2002, background): “[10] The direct relationship between localized regions of auroral emission and localized reconnection and plasmoid release in the plasma sheet is now firmly established [Fairfield et al., 1999; Lyons et al., 1999; Zesta et al., 2000; Ieda et al., 2001; Nakamura et al., 2001a, 2001b].”
On the current sheets surrounding dipolarizing flux bundles in the magnetotail: The case for wedgelets (2013, background): “…and region-2-sense FACs, and as a DFB moves earthward, it is expected to generate equatorward propagating north-south arcs, often originating at poleward boundary intensifications [e.g., Kauristie, et al., 2000; Zesta et al., 2000, 2002; Nakamura et al., 2001; Nishimura et al., 2010a, 2010b].”
Bursty bulk flows and dipolarization in MHD simulations of magnetotail reconnection (2011, unknown): “Both features are consistent with observed near‐Earth signatures of flow bursts related to auroral streamers [e.g., Fairfield et al., 1999; Lyons et al., 1999; Zesta et al.,2000; Nakamura et al., 2001a, 2001b; Sergeev et al., 2004; Grocott et al., 2004].”