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TY - JOUR
T1 - Double Star, Cluster, and ground-based observations of magnetic reconnection during an interval of duskward oriented IMF: preliminary results
AU - Wild, J. A.
AU - Milan, S. E.
AU - Davies, J. A.
AU - Cowley, S. W. H.
AU - Carr, C. A.
AU - Balogh, A.
PY - 2005/11/8
Y1 - 2005/11/8
N2 - We present a space- and ground-based study exploiting data from the coordinated Cluster and Double Star missions in order to investigate dayside magnetic reconnection under BY+ dominated IMF conditions. In-situ observations of magnetosheath flux transfer events combined with measurements of pulsed poleward and dawnward directed flows in the pre-noon sector high-latitude northern hemisphere ionosphere are interpreted as indications of pulsed magnetic reconnection during an interval in which the IMF remained relatively steady. Observations of newly- reconnected magnetic flux tubes anchored in the northern hemisphere both at mid-latitudes and in the vicinity of the subsolar point suggests that during BY+ dominated IMF, reconnection is not, as proposed previously, limited to the high-latitude magnetopause.
AB - We present a space- and ground-based study exploiting data from the coordinated Cluster and Double Star missions in order to investigate dayside magnetic reconnection under BY+ dominated IMF conditions. In-situ observations of magnetosheath flux transfer events combined with measurements of pulsed poleward and dawnward directed flows in the pre-noon sector high-latitude northern hemisphere ionosphere are interpreted as indications of pulsed magnetic reconnection during an interval in which the IMF remained relatively steady. Observations of newly- reconnected magnetic flux tubes anchored in the northern hemisphere both at mid-latitudes and in the vicinity of the subsolar point suggests that during BY+ dominated IMF, reconnection is not, as proposed previously, limited to the high-latitude magnetopause.
KW - DCS-publications-id
KW - art-715
KW - DCS-publications-personnel-id
KW - 104
U2 - 10.5194/angeo-23-2903-2005
DO - 10.5194/angeo-23-2903-2005
M3 - Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 2903
EP - 1907
JO - Annales Geophysicae
JF - Annales Geophysicae
SN - 0992-7689
IS - 8
ER -