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AN: SM12B-02 [Abstracts]
TI: Solar wind control of plasma number density in the near Earth plasma sheet: three- dimensional structure
AU: * Nagata, D
EM: nagata@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp
AF: Kyoto University, KitashirakawaOiwake-cho,Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
AU: Machida, S
EM: machida@kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp
AF: Kyoto University, KitashirakawaOiwake-cho,Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan
AU: Ohtani, S
EM: ohtani@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hipkins Road, Laurel, MD
20723, United States
AU: Saito, Y
EM: saito@stp.isas.jaxa.jp
AF: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
Yoshino-dai, Sagamihara, 229-8510, Japan
AU: Mukai, T
EM: mukai@stp.isas.jaxa.jp
AF: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
Yoshino-dai, Sagamihara, 229-8510, Japan
AB:
Plasma number density in the near-Earth plasma sheet depends strongly on solar wind and IMF: (1) plasma
sheet number density positively correlates with solar wind number density [Borovsky et al., 1998]. (2) plasma
sheet number density positively correlates with theta angle of IMF with time lag of several-hours [Terasawa et al.,
1997]. Recently, Nagata et al. [JGR in press] shows two-dimensional structure of such dependences in the near-
Earth central plasma sheet (X<0, 9
DE: 2748 Magnetotail boundary layers
DE: 2760 Plasma convection (2463)
DE: 2764 Plasma sheet
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting