HR: 0800h
AN: SM11A-0320    [Abstracts]
TI: Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices
AU: * Bavassano Cattaneo, M
EM: Maria.Bice.Cattaneo@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario - INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, I- 00133, Italy
AU: Marcucci, M
EM: Marcucci@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario - INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, I- 00133, Italy
AU: Pallocchia, G
EM: Pallocchia@ifsi-roma.inaf.it
AF: Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario - INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Roma, I- 00133, Italy
AU: Reme, H
EM: Henri.Reme@cesr.fr
AF: CESR/CNRS, 9 Avenue du Colonel Roche, B.P. 4346, Toulouse, F-31028, France
AU: Lucek, E
EM: e.lucek@imperial.ac.uk
AF: The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
AB: While the Cluster spacecraft (separated by 2500 km) were skimming the dusk equatorial magnetopause during a period of northward interplanetary magnetic field and of large solar wind speed, all the plasma and magnetic field data displayed a periodicity of several minutes. The comparison between the observations and published MHD simulations allowed to interpret the Cluster data in terms of passages through fully evolved Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices. Evidence for reconnection occurring within the vortices and for plasma transport across the vortices, detected by the CIS plasma analyser, will be discussed.
DE: 2723 Magnetic reconnection (7526, 7835)
DE: 2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting