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The effect of diamagnetic drift on motion of the dayside magnetopause reconnection line
Fear, R. C.; Marcucci, M. F.; Trenchi, L.
Magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause occurs with a large density asymmetry and for a large range of magnetic shears. In these conditions, a motion of the X line has been predicted in the direction of the electron diamagnetic drift. When this motion is super Alfvenic, reconnection should be suppressed. We analysed a large data set of Double St…
Bandwidths and amplitudes of chorus-like banded emissions measured by the TC-1 Double Star spacecraft
Santolík, O.; Yearby, K. H.; Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N. +1 more
Characteristics of banded whistler-mode emissions are derived from a database of chorus-like events obtained from the complete data set of the wave measurements provided by the Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Field Fluctuation-Digital Wave Processing (STAFF-DWP) wave instrument on board the TC-1 Double Star spacecraft. Our study covers the full operat…
Preliminary empirical model of inner boundary of ion plasma sheet
Dandouras, I.; Cao, J. B.; Reme, H. +4 more
The penetration of the plasma sheet into the inner magnetosphere is important to both ring current formation and spacecraft charging at geosynchronous orbit. This paper, using hot ion data recorded by HIA of TC-1/DSP, establishes an empirical model of the inner boundary of ion plasma sheet (IBIPS) on the near equatorial plane. All IBIPS are locate…
Global frequency distributions of pulsations driven by sharp decrease of solar wind dynamic pressure
Wang, Zhi Qiang
On 24 August 2005, an impulse of solar wind dynamic pressure (Psw) hit the magnetosphere. Using the high resolution geomagnetic field data from 15 ground stations and the data from Geotail and TC-1, we studied the geomagnetic pulsations at auroral latitudes driven by the sharp decrease of Psw at the trailing edge of the impulse. The results show t…