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Local influence of magnetosheath plasma beta fluctuations on magnetopause reconnection
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- Laitinen, T. V. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsalaavdelningen
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- Khotyaintsev, Yuri V. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsalaavdelningen
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- André, Mats (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsalaavdelningen
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- Vaivads, Andris (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsalaavdelningen
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Reme, H. (author)
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- 2010-05-05
- 2010
- English.
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In: Annales Geophysicae. - : Copernicus Publications. - 0992-7689 .- 1432-0576. ; 28:5, s. 1053-1063
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- We present observations from two subsolar Cluster magnetopause crossings under southward interplanetary magnetic field and strong mirror mode fluctuations in the magnetosheath. In both events the reconnection outflow jets show strong variations on the timescale of one minute. We show that at least some of the recorded variations are truly temporal, not spatial. On the same timescale, mirror mode fluctuations appear as strong magnetic fluctuations in the magnetosheath next to the magnetopause. This suggests that mirror modes can cause the variations either through modulation of continuous reconnection or through triggering of bursty reconnection. Using a theoretical scaling law for asymmetric reconnection we show that modulation of reconnection at a single x-line can explain the observations of the first event. The second event cannot be explained by a single modulated x-line: there the evidence points to patchy and bursty reconnection.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Magnetospheric physics
- Magnetopause
- cusp
- and boundary layers
- Space plasma physics
- Magnetic reconnection
- Physics
- Fysik
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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