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AN: SM23C-04 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: High and low latitude reconnection signatures in the dayside magnetopause and cusp observed by Cluster-Double Star: six-point measurements
AU: * Dunlop, M W
EM: m.dunlop@rl.ac.uk
AF: SSTD, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX United Kingdom
AU: Taylor, M G
EM: mtaylor@rssd.esa.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, Noordwijk, 2200 AG Netherlands
AU: Pu, Z
EM: zypu@pku.edu.cn
AF: School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China
AU: Davies, J A
EM: j.davies@rl.ac.uk
AF: SSTD, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX United Kingdom
AU: Bogdanova, Y
EM: jb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 United Kingdom
AU: Pitout, F
EM: fpitout@mpe.mpg.de
AF: Max-Planck Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik, P.O.Box 1312, Garching, 85741 Germany
AU: Fazakerley, A N
EM: anf@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 United Kingdom
AU: Owen, C J
EM: cjo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 United Kingdom
AU: Laakso, H
EM: hlaakso@rssd.esa.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, Noordwijk, 2200 AG Netherlands
AU: Zong, Q
EM: zong@bu.edu
AF: Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA MA 02215 United States
AU: Shen, C
EM: sc@center.cssar.ac.cn
AF: Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080 China
AU: Nykyri, K
EM: k.nykyri@imperial.ac.uk
AF: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
AU: Lavraud, B
EM: lavraud@lanl.gov
AF: Space and Atmospheric Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM NM United States
AU: Wild, J
EM: j.wild@lancaster.ac.uk
AF: Space Plasma Environment and Radio Science group, Department of Communication Systems, InfoLab 21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA United Kingdom
AU: Liu, Z
EM: liu@center.cssar.ac.cn
AF: Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080 China
AU: Carr, C
EM: c.m.carr@ic.ac.uk
AF: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
AU: Escoubet, P
EM: Philippe.Escoubet@esa.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, 2200 AG Noordwijk, Noordwijk, 2200 AG Netherlands
AU: Milan, S
EM: ets@ion.le.ac.uk
AF: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH United Kingdom
AU: Reme, H
EM: Henri.Reme@cesr.fr
AF: Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, 9 ave Colonel Roche, Toulouse, 31028 France
AB: During the Spring of 2004 and 2005, the Cluster orbit preferentially sampled the high and mid altitude cusp region in the northern hemisphere and crossed the adjacent mantle region in the southern hemisphere. The Doublestar one, TC-1, spacecraft sampled either the subsolar region of the magnetopause, or southerly latitudes, on a number of passes. In comparison, the Doublestar two, TC-2, spacecraft sampled the low altitude cusp and cleft regions in both hemispheres. We focus on coordinated CLUSTER-Double Star conjunctions for a number of dayside passes to investigate reconnection associated signatures observed at different locations, both in terms of transient FTEs, arising from opened flux ropes during intermittant reconnection, and comparative boundary layer signatures during cusp and magnetopause transitions. We attempt to quantify differences in the structure and dynamics of the magnetopause boundary layer between the spacecraft locations. We also track the polarity and motion of flux tubes implied from the occurance of FTEs, observed at the different spacecraft, in order to map to the most probable reconnection sites under a variety of upstream conditions. In one example, on 6 April 2004, the observations are consistent with ongoing reconnection on the dayside magnetopause during which both Cluster and TC-1, lying north and south of a reconnection line, respectively, observe a series of FTEs. Cluster observes consistently northward moving FTEs with +/- polarity, whereas TC-1 sees FTEs of -/+ polarity. The application of a model designed to track flux tube motion for the observed plasma parameters and prevailing interplanetary conditions confirms the evidence from the observations. This work was borne out of the activities of an ISSI working group on comparative Cluster-Double Star measurements of the dayside magnetosphere (ISSI, Berne, Switzerland).
DE: 2723 Magnetic reconnection (7526, 7835)
DE: 2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers
DE: 7835 Magnetic reconnection (2723, 7526)
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005