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Brandt PC, Provornikova E, Bale SD, Cocoros A, DeMajistre R, Dialynas K, Elliott HA, Eriksson S, Fields B, Galli A, Hill ME, Horanyi M, Horbury T, Hunziker S, Kollmann P, Kinnison J, Fountain G, Krimigis SM, Kurth WS, Linsky J, Lisse CM, Mandt KE, Magnes W, McNutt RL, Miller J, Moebius E, Mostafavi P, Opher M, Paxton L, Plaschke F, Poppe AR, Roelof EC, Runyon K, Redfield S, Schwadron N, Sterken V, Swaczyna P, Szalay J, Turner D, Vannier H, Wimmer-Schweingruber R, Wurz P, Zirnstein EJ. Future Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and Very Local Interstellar Medium by Interstellar Probe. Space Sci Rev 2023; 219:18. [PMID: 36874191 PMCID: PMC9974711 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-022-00943-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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A detailed overview of the knowledge gaps in our understanding of the heliospheric interaction with the largely unexplored Very Local Interstellar Medium (VLISM) are provided along with predictions of with the scientific discoveries that await. The new measurements required to make progress in this expanding frontier of space physics are discussed and include in-situ plasma and pick-up ion measurements throughout the heliosheath, direct sampling of the VLISM properties such as elemental and isotopic composition, densities, flows, and temperatures of neutral gas, dust and plasma, and remote energetic neutral atom (ENA) and Lyman-alpha (LYA) imaging from vantage points that can uniquely discern the heliospheric shape and bring new information on the interaction with interstellar hydrogen. The implementation of a pragmatic Interstellar Probe mission with a nominal design life to reach 375 Astronomical Units (au) with likely operation out to 550 au are reported as a result of a 4-year NASA funded mission study.
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- P. C. Brandt
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Office of Space Research and Technology, Academy of Athens, Athens, 10679 Greece
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO USA
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- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL USA
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- University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Office of Space Research and Technology, Academy of Athens, Athens, 10679 Greece
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- University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Boston University, Boston, MA USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ USA
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- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD USA
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- University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Phan TD, Eastwood JP, Shay MA, Drake JF, Sonnerup BUÖ, Fujimoto M, Cassak PA, Øieroset M, Burch JL, Torbert RB, Rager AC, Dorelli JC, Gershman DJ, Pollock C, Pyakurel PS, Haggerty CC, Khotyaintsev Y, Lavraud B, Saito Y, Oka M, Ergun RE, Retino A, Le Contel O, Argall MR, Giles BL, Moore TE, Wilder FD, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Lindqvist PA, Magnes W. Publisher Correction: Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth's turbulent magnetosheath. Nature 2019; 569:E9. [PMID: 31073227 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1208-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Change history: In this Letter, the y-axis values in Fig. 3f should go from 4 to -8 (rather than from 4 to -4), the y-axis values in Fig. 3h should appear next to the major tick marks (rather than the minor ticks), and in Fig. 1b, the arrows at the top and bottom of the electron-scale current sheet were going in the wrong direction; these errors have been corrected online.
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- T D Phan
- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA.,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- ISAS/JAXA, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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Varsani A, Nakamura R, Sergeev VA, Baumjohann W, Owen CJ, Petrukovich AA, Yao Z, Nakamura TKM, Kubyshkina MV, Sotirelis T, Burch JL, Genestreti KJ, Vörös Z, Andriopoulou M, Gershman DJ, Avanov LA, Magnes W, Russell CT, Plaschke F, Khotyaintsev YV, Giles BL, Coffey VN, Dorelli JC, Strangeway RJ, Torbert RB, Lindqvist P, Ergun R. Simultaneous Remote Observations of Intense Reconnection Effects by DMSP and MMS Spacecraft During a Storm Time Substorm. J Geophys Res Space Phys 2017; 122:10891-10909. [PMID: 29399431 PMCID: PMC5784414 DOI: 10.1002/2017ja024547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Revised: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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During a magnetic storm on 23 June 2015, several very intense substorms took place, with signatures observed by multiple spacecraft including DMSP and Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS). At the time of interest, DMSP F18 crossed inbound through a poleward expanding auroral bulge boundary at 23.5 h magnetic local time (MLT), while MMS was located duskward of 22 h MLT during an inward crossing of the expanding plasma sheet boundary. The two spacecraft observed a consistent set of signatures as they simultaneously crossed the reconnection separatrix layer during this very intense reconnection event. These include (1) energy dispersion of the energetic ions and electrons traveling earthward, accompanied with high electron energies in the vicinity of the separatrix; (2) energy dispersion of polar rain electrons, with a high-energy cutoff; and (3) intense inward convection of the magnetic field lines at the MMS location. The high temporal resolution measurements by MMS provide unprecedented observations of the outermost electron boundary layer. We discuss the relevance of the energy dispersion of the electrons, and their pitch angle distribution, to the spatial and temporal evolution of the boundary layer. The results indicate that the underlying magnetotail magnetic reconnection process was an intrinsically impulsive and the active X-line was located relatively close to the Earth, approximately at 16-18 RE.
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- A. Varsani
- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Earth's Physics DepartmentSt. Petersburg State UniversitySt. PetersburgRussia
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory/UCLDorkingUK
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- Space Science Technologies and Astrophysics Research InstituteLiegeBelgium
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- Earth's Physics DepartmentSt. Petersburg State UniversitySt. PetersburgRussia
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- Applied Physics LaboratoryThe Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimoreMAUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
- Institute of PhysicsUniversity of GrazGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- University of California Los Angeles, IGPP/EPSSLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- NASA Marshall Space Flight CenterHuntsvilleALUSA
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- University of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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Graham DB, Khotyaintsev YV, Vaivads A, Norgren C, André M, Webster JM, Burch JL, Lindqvist PA, Ergun RE, Torbert RB, Paterson WR, Gershman DJ, Giles BL, Magnes W, Russell CT. Instability of Agyrotropic Electron Beams near the Electron Diffusion Region. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 119:025101. [PMID: 28753352 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.025101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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During a magnetopause crossing the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft encountered an electron diffusion region (EDR) of asymmetric reconnection. The EDR is characterized by agyrotropic beam and crescent electron distributions perpendicular to the magnetic field. Intense upper-hybrid (UH) waves are found at the boundary between the EDR and magnetosheath inflow region. The UH waves are generated by the agyrotropic electron beams. The UH waves are sufficiently large to contribute to electron diffusion and scattering, and are a potential source of radio emission near the EDR. These results provide observational evidence of wave-particle interactions at an EDR, and suggest that waves play an important role in determining the electron dynamics.
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- D B Graham
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala SE-75121, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-11428, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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Wilder FD, Ergun RE, Eriksson S, Phan TD, Burch JL, Ahmadi N, Goodrich KA, Newman DL, Trattner KJ, Torbert RB, Giles BL, Strangeway RJ, Magnes W, Lindqvist PA, Khotyaintsev YV. Multipoint Measurements of the Electron Jet of Symmetric Magnetic Reconnection with a Moderate Guide Field. Phys Rev Lett 2017; 118:265101. [PMID: 28707935 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.265101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites of the electron jet in a symmetric magnetic reconnection event with moderate guide field. All four spacecraft sampled the ion diffusion region and observed the electron exhaust. The observations suggest that the presence of the guide field leads to an asymmetric Hall field, which results in an electron jet skewed towards the separatrix with a nonzero component along the magnetic field. The jet appears in conjunction with a spatially and temporally persistent parallel electric field ranging from -3 to -5 mV/m, which led to dissipation on the order of 8 nW/m^{3}. The parallel electric field heats electrons that drift through it, and is associated with a streaming instability and electron phase space holes.
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- F D Wilder
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-11428, Sweden
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Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Zhao C, Anderson BJ, Baumjohann W, Bromund KR, Fischer D, Kepko L, Le G, Magnes W, Nakamura R, Plaschke F, Slavin JA, Torbert RB, Moore TE, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Burch JL. Structure, force balance, and topology of Earth's magnetopause. Science 2017; 356:960-963. [PMID: 28572393 DOI: 10.1126/science.aag3112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2016] [Revised: 01/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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The magnetopause deflects the solar wind plasma and confines Earth's magnetic field. We combine measurements made by the four spacecraft of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to demonstrate how the plasma and magnetic forces at the boundary affect the interaction between the shocked solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. We compare these forces with the plasma pressure and examine the electron distribution function. We find that the magnetopause has sublayers with thickness comparable to the ion scale. Small pockets of low magnetic field strength, small radius of curvature, and high electric current mark the electron diffusion region. The flow of electrons, parallel and antiparallel to the magnetic field, reveals a complex topology with the creation of magnetic ropes at the boundary.
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- C T Russell
- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723-6099, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstr. 6, 8010 Graz, Austria
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- Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78228-0510, USA
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Le G, Chi PJ, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Slavin JA, Takahashi K, Singer HJ, Anderson BJ, Bromund K, Fischer D, Kepko EL, Magnes W, Nakamura R, Plaschke F, Torbert RB. Global observations of magnetospheric high- m poloidal waves during the 22 June 2015 magnetic storm. Geophys Res Lett 2017; 44:3456-3464. [PMID: 28713180 PMCID: PMC5488625 DOI: 10.1002/2017gl073048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2017] [Revised: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report global observations of high-m poloidal waves during the recovery phase of the 22 June 2015 magnetic storm from a constellation of widely spaced satellites of five missions including Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS), Van Allen Probes, Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorm (THEMIS), Cluster, and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES). The combined observations demonstrate the global spatial extent of storm time poloidal waves. MMS observations confirm high azimuthal wave numbers (m ~ 100). Mode identification indicates the waves are associated with the second harmonic of field line resonances. The wave frequencies exhibit a decreasing trend as L increases, distinguishing them from the single-frequency global poloidal modes normally observed during quiet times. Detailed examination of the instantaneous frequency reveals discrete spatial structures with step-like frequency changes along L. Each discrete L shell has a steady wave frequency and spans about 1 RE , suggesting that there exist a discrete number of drift-bounce resonance regions across L shells during storm times.
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- G. Le
- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Climate and Space Sciences & EngineeringUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMichiganUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMarylandUSA
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- NOAA Space Weather Prediction CenterBoulderColoradoUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMarylandUSA
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Heliophysics Science DivisionNASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Physics DepartmentUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNew HampshireUSA
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Johlander A, Schwartz SJ, Vaivads A, Khotyaintsev YV, Gingell I, Peng IB, Markidis S, Lindqvist PA, Ergun RE, Marklund GT, Plaschke F, Magnes W, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Wei H, Torbert RB, Paterson WR, Gershman DJ, Dorelli JC, Avanov LA, Lavraud B, Saito Y, Giles BL, Pollock CJ, Burch JL. Rippled Quasiperpendicular Shock Observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:165101. [PMID: 27792387 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.165101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Collisionless shock nonstationarity arising from microscale physics influences shock structure and particle acceleration mechanisms. Nonstationarity has been difficult to quantify due to the small spatial and temporal scales. We use the closely spaced (subgyroscale), high-time-resolution measurements from one rapid crossing of Earth's quasiperpendicular bow shock by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft to compare competing nonstationarity processes. Using MMS's high-cadence kinetic plasma measurements, we show that the shock exhibits nonstationarity in the form of ripples.
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- A Johlander
- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75120, Sweden
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala 75121, Sweden
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80303, USA
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- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz 8042, Austria
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
- University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse 31028, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5277, Toulouse 31400, France
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA, Sagamihara 2525210, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
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Schmid D, Nakamura R, Volwerk M, Plaschke F, Narita Y, Baumjohann W, Magnes W, Fischer D, Eichelberger HU, Torbert RB, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Leinweber HK, Le G, Bromund KR, Anderson BJ, Slavin JA, Kepko EL. A comparative study of dipolarization fronts at MMS and Cluster. Geophys Res Lett 2016; 43:6012-6019. [PMID: 27478286 PMCID: PMC4949994 DOI: 10.1002/2016gl069520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We present a statistical study of dipolarization fronts (DFs), using magnetic field data from MMS and Cluster, at radial distances below 12 RE and 20 RE , respectively. Assuming that the DFs have a semicircular cross section and are propelled by the magnetic tension force, we used multispacecraft observations to determine the DF velocities. About three quarters of the DFs propagate earthward and about one quarter tailward. Generally, MMS is in a more dipolar magnetic field region and observes larger-amplitude DFs than Cluster. The major findings obtained in this study are as follows: (1) At MMS ∼57 % of the DFs move faster than 150 km/s, while at Cluster only ∼35 %, indicating a variable flux transport rate inside the flow-braking region. (2) Larger DF velocities correspond to higher Bz values directly ahead of the DFs. We interpret this as a snow plow-like phenomenon, resulting from a higher magnetic flux pileup ahead of DFs with higher velocities.
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- D. Schmid
- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
- NAWI GrazUniversity of GrazGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Space Research InstituteAustrian Academy of SciencesGrazAustria
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- Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and SpaceUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNew HampshireUSA
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTexasUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of CaliforniaLos AngelesCaliforniaUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMarylandUSA
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- Department of Climate and Space Sciences and EngineeringUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMichiganUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMarylandUSA
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Nakamura R, Sergeev VA, Baumjohann W, Plaschke F, Magnes W, Fischer D, Varsani A, Schmid D, Nakamura TKM, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Leinweber HK, Le G, Bromund KR, Pollock CJ, Giles BL, Dorelli JC, Gershman DJ, Paterson W, Avanov LA, Fuselier SA, Genestreti K, Burch JL, Torbert RB, Chutter M, Argall MR, Anderson BJ, Lindqvist P, Marklund GT, Khotyaintsev YV, Mauk BH, Cohen IJ, Baker DN, Jaynes AN, Ergun RE, Singer HJ, Slavin JA, Kepko EL, Moore TE, Lavraud B, Coffey V, Saito Y. Transient, small-scale field-aligned currents in the plasma sheet boundary layer during storm time substorms. Geophys Res Lett 2016; 43:4841-4849. [PMID: 27867235 PMCID: PMC5111425 DOI: 10.1002/2016gl068768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Revised: 04/26/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report on field-aligned current observations by the four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft near the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) during two major substorms on 23 June 2015. Small-scale field-aligned currents were found embedded in fluctuating PSBL flux tubes near the separatrix region. We resolve, for the first time, short-lived earthward (downward) intense field-aligned current sheets with thicknesses of a few tens of kilometers, which are well below the ion scale, on flux tubes moving equatorward/earthward during outward plasma sheet expansion. They coincide with upward field-aligned electron beams with energies of a few hundred eV. These electrons are most likely due to acceleration associated with a reconnection jet or high-energy ion beam-produced disturbances. The observations highlight coupling of multiscale processes in PSBL as a consequence of magnetotail reconnection.
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Burch JL, Torbert RB, Phan TD, Chen LJ, Moore TE, Ergun RE, Eastwood JP, Gershman DJ, Cassak PA, Argall MR, Wang S, Hesse M, Pollock CJ, Giles BL, Nakamura R, Mauk BH, Fuselier SA, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Drake JF, Shay MA, Khotyaintsev YV, Lindqvist PA, Marklund G, Wilder FD, Young DT, Torkar K, Goldstein J, Dorelli JC, Avanov LA, Oka M, Baker DN, Jaynes AN, Goodrich KA, Cohen IJ, Turner DL, Fennell JF, Blake JB, Clemmons J, Goldman M, Newman D, Petrinec SM, Trattner KJ, Lavraud B, Reiff PH, Baumjohann W, Magnes W, Steller M, Lewis W, Saito Y, Coffey V, Chandler M. Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space. Science 2016; 352:aaf2939. [PMID: 27174677 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 438] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas whereby stored magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy of charged particles. Reconnection occurs in many astrophysical plasma environments and in laboratory plasmas. Using measurements with very high time resolution, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has found direct evidence for electron demagnetization and acceleration at sites along the sunward boundary of Earth's magnetosphere where the interplanetary magnetic field reconnects with the terrestrial magnetic field. We have (i) observed the conversion of magnetic energy to particle energy; (ii) measured the electric field and current, which together cause the dissipation of magnetic energy; and (iii) identified the electron population that carries the current as a result of demagnetization and acceleration within the reconnection diffusion/dissipation region.
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- J L Burch
- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA.
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
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- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado LASP, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan
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- NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
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- NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
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Russell CT, Zhang TL, Delva M, Magnes W, Strangeway RJ, Wei HY. Lightning on Venus inferred from whistler-mode waves in the ionosphere. Nature 2007; 450:661-2. [DOI: 10.1038/nature05930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2007] [Accepted: 05/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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