HR: 1340h
AN: SM23B-0414    [Abstracts]
TI: Structure of thin current sheets in the magnetotail
AU: * Nakamura, R
EM: rumi@oeaw.ac.at
AF: IWF/OEAW, Schmiedlstr. 6, Graz, 8010 Austria
AU: Baumjohann, W
EM: baumjohann@oeaw.ac.at
AF: IWF/OEAW, Schmiedlstr. 6, Graz, 8010 Austria
AU: Runov, A
EM: andrei.runov@oeaw.ac.at
AF: IWF/OEAW, Schmiedlstr. 6, Graz, 8010 Austria
AU: Asano, Y
EM: yoshihiro.asano@oeaw.ac.at
AF: IWF/OEAW, Schmiedlstr. 6, Graz, 8010 Austria
AU: Balogh, A
EM: a.balogh@ic.ac.uk)
AF: Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BZ United Kingdom
AU: Owen, C J
EM: cjo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: MullardSpace Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AU: Mouikis, C
EM: cmouikis@atlas.sr.unh.edu
AF: U. New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Kistler, L M
EM: Lynn.KISTLER@unh.edu
AF: U. New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Klecker, B
EM: berndt.klecker@mpe.mpg.de
AF: MPE, Postfach 1312, Garching, 85741 Germany
AU: Reme, H
EM: Reme@cesr.fr
AF: CESR/CNRS, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, Toulouse, F-31028 France
AU: Fazakerley, A N
EM: anf@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: MullardSpace Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AB: Thin current sheets with a thickness of less than a few ion gyro radii are known to play an important role in the energy conversion process in the magnetotail. During summer 2003, when the tetrahedron scale of Cluster was about 250 km, fine structures of thin current sheets were resolved using multipoint measurements. We examined the detailed structures of thin current sheets and their evolution during two substorm intervals with quite different characteristics: one event with clear signatures of reconnection and one without signatures of reconnection but clear oscillation of the thin current sheet.
DE: 2721 Field-aligned currents and current systems (2409)
DE: 2723 Magnetic reconnection (7526, 7835)
DE: 2744 Magnetotail
DE: 2764 Plasma sheet
DE: 2790 Substorms
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005