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AN: SM11C-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Cold Dense Plasma Sheet Formation During Northward IMF
AU: * Raeder, J
EM: J.Raeder@unh.edu
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Li, W
EM: wenhuil@cisunix.unh.edu
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Dorelli, J
EM: john.dorelli@unh.edu
AF: Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Oieroset, M
EM: oieroset@apollo.ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 03824 United States
AU: Phan, T
EM: phan@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 03824 United States
AB: A cold, dense plasma sheet (CDPS) is often observed when the IMF has been northward for an extended time period, usually several hours. One such period occurred October 22/23, 2003. During that period the IMF was strongly northward for approximately 36 hours, while Cluster II observed a cold dense plasma sheet. We present detailed global simulation results for this event that show how the CDPS develops due to lobe reconnection, which causes IMF flux tubes to be captured and subsequently convected into the tail, forming the CDPS.
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 2744 Magnetotail
DE: 2764 Plasma sheet
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting