A study of the changes of the near-Earth plasma sheet and lobe driven by multiple substorms: Comparison with a full particle simulation of reconnection
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| 作者 | Sauvaud, J. -A.; Jacquey, C.; Oka, M.; Palin, L.; Fruit, G.; Kistler, L. M.; Balogh, A.; Cao, J. B.; Reeves, G.; Mukai, T. |
| 刊名 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
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| 出版日期 | 2012 |
| 卷号 | 117页码:A01221 |
| ISSN号 | 0148-0227 |
| 通讯作者 | Sauvaud, JA (reprint author), Univ Toulouse, CNRS, IRAP, F-31028 Toulouse, France. |
| 中文摘要 | Comparisons of multispacecraft observations and full-particle simulations are used to understand magnetotail changes during substorms and the related cross-tail current disruptions/reductions. We first show that the electric field accompanying current disruptions can be measured in the tail lobe from the drift velocity of oxygen beams. A stormy period is studied here with a fleet of spacecraft including the four Cluster spacecraft and the Double Star spacecraft TC-1 in the tail, ACE and Geotail respectively in the solar wind and magnetosheath, and five LANL geostationary satellites, thus allowing the determination of the direction of propagation of the substorm disturbances. Each substorm here corresponds to an energy-loading period followed by a dipolarization of the magnetic field seen from 11 to 18 R-E. Plasma sheet thinning inside 12 R-E occurs during energy loading and is enhanced at the onset of strong dissipations of magnetic energy, which precede by several minutes particle injections at 6.6 R-E. Dipolarizations coincide with an increase of the lobe electric field, up to several mV/m. This study shows that the onset of the magnetic energy conversion occurs at about similar to 10-11 R-E and that once initiated, the perturbation propagates both toward the Earth and toward the distant tail. Comparisons of the measurements with recently published 2D full particle simulations of the reconnection process by Oka et al. (2008) indicate a good agreement between data and simulated magnetic lobe signatures. This suggests that the lobe magnetic changes are the signature of a tailward retreating neutral line, with its associated current disruption/reduction. |
| 英文摘要 | Comparisons of multispacecraft observations and full-particle simulations are used to understand magnetotail changes during substorms and the related cross-tail current disruptions/reductions. We first show that the electric field accompanying current disruptions can be measured in the tail lobe from the drift velocity of oxygen beams. A stormy period is studied here with a fleet of spacecraft including the four Cluster spacecraft and the Double Star spacecraft TC-1 in the tail, ACE and Geotail respectively in the solar wind and magnetosheath, and five LANL geostationary satellites, thus allowing the determination of the direction of propagation of the substorm disturbances. Each substorm here corresponds to an energy-loading period followed by a dipolarization of the magnetic field seen from 11 to 18 R-E. Plasma sheet thinning inside 12 R-E occurs during energy loading and is enhanced at the onset of strong dissipations of magnetic energy, which precede by several minutes particle injections at 6.6 R-E. Dipolarizations coincide with an increase of the lobe electric field, up to several mV/m. This study shows that the onset of the magnetic energy conversion occurs at about similar to 10-11 R-E and that once initiated, the perturbation propagates both toward the Earth and toward the distant tail. Comparisons of the measurements with recently published 2D full particle simulations of the reconnection process by Oka et al. (2008) indicate a good agreement between data and simulated magnetic lobe signatures. This suggests that the lobe magnetic changes are the signature of a tailward retreating neutral line, with its associated current disruption/reduction. |
| 学科主题 | 空间物理 |
| 资助信息 | ESA; French CNES; CNRS; NASA at UC Berkeley [NNX08AO83G] |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 公开日期 | 2014-12-15 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.nssc.ac.cn/handle/122/3179]  |
| 专题 | 国家空间科学中心_空间科学部 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sauvaud, J. -A.,Jacquey, C.,Oka, M.,et al. A study of the changes of the near-Earth plasma sheet and lobe driven by multiple substorms: Comparison with a full particle simulation of reconnection[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS,2012,117:A01221. |
| APA | Sauvaud, J. -A..,Jacquey, C..,Oka, M..,Palin, L..,Fruit, G..,...&Grigorenko, E..(2012).A study of the changes of the near-Earth plasma sheet and lobe driven by multiple substorms: Comparison with a full particle simulation of reconnection.JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS,117,A01221. |
| MLA | Sauvaud, J. -A.,et al."A study of the changes of the near-Earth plasma sheet and lobe driven by multiple substorms: Comparison with a full particle simulation of reconnection".JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS 117(2012):A01221. |
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