HR: 16:20h
AN: SM24A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Magnetotail Science With Double Star and Cluster
AU: * Fazakerley, A N
EM: anf@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AU: Alexeev, I
EM: ia@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AU: Marchaudon, A
EM: am@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AU: Owen, C J
EM: cjo@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT United Kingdom
AU: Carr, C M
EM: c.m.carr@imperial.ac.uk
AF: Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, The Blackett Laboratory Imperial College London Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BW United Kingdom
AU: Lucek, E
EM: e.lucek@imperial.ac.uk
AF: Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, The Blackett Laboratory Imperial College London Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BW United Kingdom
AU: Reme, H
EM: henri.reme@cesr.fr
AF: CESR, 9 avenue du Colonel Roche B.P. 4346, Toulouse, F-31028 France
AB: Double Star is an international collaboration between the China National Space Agency (CNSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), which has produced and launched two magnetospheric research spacecraft, TC-1 and TC-2. TC-1, was launched in late December 2003, and is in a near-equatorial highly elliptical orbit, with apogee at 13.4 Earth radii. TC-2 was launched in late July 2004 into a polar orbit with apogee at 7.1 Earth radii, initially at a high magnetic latitude. These orbits were designed so that the magnetic local time of their apogees coincide closely with that of ESA's Cluster flotilla. Cluster, launched in 2000, is also in a polar orbit, but with apogee at about 19.6 Earth radii. These six spacecraft provide excellent opportunities for magnetotail science by enabling simultaneous co-ordinated observations at different distances along the magnetotail. We will illustrate this by presenting a study of a magnetotail disturbance during such a conjunction.
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 2744 Magnetotail
DE: 2788 Magnetic storms and substorms (7954)
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005