Geotail observations of magnetic flux ropes in the plasma sheet

By J. Slavin, R. Lepping, J. Gjerloev, D. Fairfield, M. Hesse, C. Owen, Mark B. Moldwin, T. Nagai, A. Ieda, T. Mukai. 2003

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Citations in the corpus

• Temporal structure of the fast convective flow in the plasma sheet: Comparison between observations and two-fluid simulations (2004, background): “... parameters such as the plasma density are better correlated with the change of the magnetic field [see, e.g., Fairfield et al., 1999, Figure 7]. In fact, fast plasma flows are occasionally observed along with a systematic change of the magnetic field, which can be interpreted in terms of the pas”
• Multi-point observations of the Hall electromagnetic field and secondary island formation during magnetic reconnection (2006, methodology): “In particular, if one site has evolved sufficiently such that it begins to process lobe plasma, the reconnection rate at that site is enhanced [Hesse et al., 1996] and rapidly drives the other nascent flux rope structures earthward or tailward as appropriate [ Slavin et al., 2003a ], although this m”
• Dipolarization fronts as a signature of transient reconnection in the magnetotail (2009, methodology): “The examples include observations of substorm dipolarizations using Wind and Geotail [Slavin et al., 1997, Figure 3; Fairfield et al., 1999, Figure 7] as well as recent Themis data [Angelopoulos et al., 2008, Figure 4h] and similar BBF observations using Geotail and Cluster data [Tu et al., 2000, Fi”
• THEMIS observations of an earthward‐propagating dipolarization front (2009, background): “Transient dipolarizations observed in the mid-tail plasma sheet are interpreted either as BBF-type flux ropes [Slavin et al., 2003] or as Nightside Flux Transfer Events [Sergeev et al., 1992].”
• Bursty bulk flows and dipolarization in MHD simulations of magnetotail reconnection (2011, background): “Sometimes the observed reduction of Bz involves negative Bz. In that case, the dip may be associated with secondary reconnection involving formation of a small magnetic island or flux rope earthward of the main reconnection site [Schindler, 1974; Slavin et al., 2003; Sitnov et al., 2009].”
• A THEMIS multicase study of dipolarization fronts in the magnetotail plasma sheet (2011, background): “[31] Enhancement of the duskward electric field component of E′ is likely due to a difference in electron and ion velocities at the front, resulting in a difference between −VixBz and −VexBz [ Sitnov et al., 2009 ].”