HR: 17:10h
AN: SM24A-05 [Abstracts]
TI: Sources of Cold Dense Plasma Sheet:A Multi-Satellite, Multipoint Case Study
AU: * Taylor, M G
EM: mtaylor@rssd.esa.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, SCI-SH,
Keperlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2200 AG
Netherlands
AU: Lavraud, B
EM: lavraud@lanl.gov
AF: Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
United States
AU: Thomsen, M F
EM: mthomsen@lanl.gov
AF: Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
United States
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: Dunlop, M W
EM: M.W.Dunlop@rl.ac.uk
AF: Space Science and Technology Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
AU: Dunlop, M W
EM: M.W.Dunlop@rl.ac.uk
AF: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
AU: Davies, J A
EM: J.A.Davies@rl.ac.uk
AF: Space Science and Technology Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, OX11 0QX
United Kingdom
AU: Frey, H
EM: hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Science Laboratory, University of California,
Berkley, Berkley, CA 94720
United States
AU: Friedel, R H
EM: freidel@lanl.gov
AF: Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545
United States
AU: Escoubet, C P
EM: Philippe.Escoubet@rssd.esa.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, SCI-SH,
Keperlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2200 AG
Netherlands
AU: Laakso, H
EM: hlaakso@rssd.esa.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, SCI-SH,
Keperlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2200 AG
Netherlands
AU: Bogdanova, Y V
EM: jb@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@ic.ac.uk
AF: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
AU: Khan, H
EM: hk2@mssl.ucl.ac.uk
AF: Mullard Space Science Laboratory,University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT
United Kingdom
AU: Lucek, E A
EM: e.lucek@imperial.ac.uk
AF: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
AU: Masson, A
EM: amasson@rssd.eas.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, SCI-SH,
Keperlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2200 AG
Netherlands
AU: Milan, S E
EM: ets@ion.le.ac.uk
AF: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH
United Kingdom
AU: Nykyri, K
EM: k.nykyri@ic.ac.uk
AF: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
AU: Opgenoorth, H J
EM: hopgenoo@rssd.esa.int
AF: ESA/ESTEC, SCI-SH,
Keperlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2200 AG
Netherlands
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: Pitout, F
EM: fpitout@mpe.mpg.de
AF: Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1312, Garching, 85741
Germany
AU: Pu, Z
EM: zypu@pku.edu.cn
AF: School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871
China
AU: Reme, H
EM: henri.reme@cesr.fr
AF: Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, 9 avenue du Colonel Roche, Toulouse, Cedex 4
France
AU: Russell, C T
EM: ctrussell@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institue of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024
United States
AU: Scudder, J D
EM: jack-scudder@uiowa.edu
AF: Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
United States
AU: Shen, C
EM: sc@center.cssar.ac.cn
AF: Centre for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080
China
AU: Sonnerup, B U
EM: Bengt.U.O. Sonnerup@Dartmouth.edu
AF: Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
United States
AU: Zhang, T
EM: tielong.Zhang@oeaw.at
AF: Institut fur Weltraumforschung, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, 8042
Austria
AU: Zong, Q
EM: zong@bu.edu
AF: Centre for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215
United States
AB:
During conditions of northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), the near tail plasma sheet is known to become denser and
cooler, and is described as the cold dense plasma sheet (CDPS). The source of this plasma is of great interest, in
particular, whether it is transferred to the magnetosphere via poleward-of-cusp, lobe reconnection or via mechanisms at the
flank magnetopause. This paper addresses this question via a case study of data from the 5th December 2004, utilizing a wide
variety of spacecraft observations, including ACE, Cluster, Double Star (TC-1 and TC-2), Polar, LANL GEO and IMAGE.
Conjunctions between various sub-sets of this multi-spacecraft constellation enable a multi point investigation of
magnetospheric dynamics related to CDPS formation, including: The global reaction of the magnetosphere to the impact of a
coronal mass ejection (CME) related shock (Cluster, LANL GEO etc); Observations of boundary layer waves at the flank
magnetopause (TC-1) along with non-wave like boundary layers (Polar); High -latitude observations of the
CDPS in the northern (TC-2) and southern (Polar) hemisphere; Evidence of high-latitude, poleward-of-cusp reconnection (IMAGE,
Polar). The pertinent aspects of this study suggest that although there is evidence of large-scale flank boundary waves and
possible plasma-transfer, poleward-of-cusp reconnection appears to produce sufficient CDPS like material.
DE: 2723 Magnetic reconnection (7526, 7835)
DE: 2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers
DE: 2744 Magnetotail
DE: 2764 Plasma sheet
DE: 7859 Transport processes
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005