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Observations of Short-period Current Sheet Flapping Events in the Earth's Magnetotail

Deng, X. H.; Huang, S. Y.; Xu, S. B. +9 more

The flapping motion of the current sheet, with the period from several minutes to tens of minutes, is one common dynamic phenomenon in the planetary magnetotail. This Letter reports on one current sheet flapping event with the short semi-period of ∼6 s on 2017 July 17 in the Earth’s magnetotail for the first time using the Magnetospheric Multiscal…