Intense Current Structures Observed at Electron Kinetic Scales in the Near-Earth Magnetotail During Dipolarization and Substorm Current Wedge Formation

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Grigorenko, E. E.RAS, Space Res Inst, Moscow, Russia.;Moscow Inst Phys & Technol, Dept Space Phys, Moscow, Russia. (författare)

We use data from the 2013-2014 Cluster Inner Magnetosphere Campaign, with its uniquely small spacecraft separations (less than or equal to electron inertia length, lambda(e)), to study multiscale magnetic structures in 14 substorm-related prolonged dipolarizations in the near-Earth magnetotail. Three time scales of dipolarization are identified: (i) a prolonged growth of the B-Z component with duration <= 20 min; (ii) B-Z pulses with durations <= 1 min during the B-Z growth; and (iii) strong magnetic field gradients with durations <= 2 s during the dipolarization growth. The values of these gradients observed at electron scales are several dozen times larger than the corresponding values of magnetic gradients simultaneously detected at ion scales. These nonlinear features in magnetic field gradients denote the formation of intense and localized (approximately a few lambda(e)) current structures during the dipolarization and substorm current wedge formation. These observations highlight the importance of electron scale processes in the formation of a 3-D substorm current system.

Dubyagin, S.Finnish Meteorol Inst, Helsinki, Finland. (författare)
Malykhin, A. Yu.RAS, Space Res Inst, Moscow, Russia. (författare)
Khotyaintsev, Yuri V.Uppsala universitet,Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsalaavdelningen(Swepub:uu)ykh28990 (författare)
Kronberg, E. A.Max Planck Inst Solar Syst Res, Gottingen, Germany.;Ludwig Maximilian Univ Munich, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Munich, Germany. (författare)
Lavraud, B.Univ Toulouse UPS, CNRS, Inst Rech Astrophys & Planetol, UMR 5277,CNES, Toulouse, France. (författare)
Ganushkina, N. YuFinnish Meteorol Inst, Helsinki, Finland.;Univ Michigan, Dept Climate & Space Sci & Engn, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. (författare)
RAS, Space Res Inst, Moscow, Russia.;Moscow Inst Phys & Technol, Dept Space Phys, Moscow, Russia.Finnish Meteorol Inst, Helsinki, Finland. (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Geophysical Research Letters: American Geophysical Union (AGU)45:2, s. 602-6110094-82761944-8007

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