Simultaneous TC-1 and Cluster Observations of FTE on 13 March 2004
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摘要: 分析了2004 年3 月13 日12:15 到12:25 UT期间TC-1和Cluster卫星簇的磁通门磁力计(FGM) 和电子/电流试验仪(PEACE)的联合观测数据. 在此期间, TC-1卫星位于日下点以南的磁层顶附近的磁鞘中, 并在12:19 UT左右观测到了一个典型的先正后负的磁鞘磁通量传输事件(FTE); 而Cluster卫星簇位于北半球日侧高纬磁层顶附近, 并于12:23 UT左右穿出磁层顶进入磁鞘, 且在12:21 UT左右也观测到了一个典型的先正后负的磁层FTE. 比较分析发现此两个FTE 具有类似的磁场结构和等离子体特征, 可能是同一个北向运动的FTE先后被TC-1和Cluster卫星观测到. 利用Cluster 4 颗卫星的多点同时观测数据, 采用最小方向微分法和时空微分方法, 推断Cluster卫星观测的这个FTE 是尺度大小约为1.21 Re的准二维结构, 其运动方向为东北方向, 与Cooling 模型预测方向基本一致. 利用Cooling模型的预测, 推算了TC-1卫星在12:19 UT观测的FTE 的运动速度和尺度, 进而得出随着通量管的极向运动, 其速度和尺度均有所增加.
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关键词:
- 磁重联 /
- FTE /
- Cooling 模型 /
- Cluster
Abstract: This paper analyzed the observations of the FGM and PEACE on TC-1 and Cluster Spacecraft between 12:15 and 12:25 UT on 13 March 2004. In this interval, the TC-1 spacecraft located in the magnetosheath southward the sub-solar magnetopause, and observed a standard magnetosheath FTE with a positive to negative bipolar characters at about 12:19 UT. The Cluster spacecraft array was encountering the plasma boundary layer near the high-latitude magnetopause in the northern hemisphere, crossing the magnetopause into the magnetosheath at about 12:23 UT. It also observed a standard magnetospheric FTE with a positive to negative bipolar characters at about 12:21 UT. With the similar features of the magnetic field structures and plasma data, these two FTE might be the same FTE moving through TC-1 and then Cluster. Since all 4 Cluster spacecrafts observed the FTE, the four-spacecraft techniques Minimum Directional Derivative/Difference (MDD) and Spatio-Temporal Difference (STD) were applied to calculate the dimension, motion and scale of these FTE. The inferred northwardly reconnected flux tube for the FTE is shown to move north-east and tailward with a quasi-2D structure and a scale of 1.21 Re. Whilst, the FTE motions are shown to be consistent with the expected motion of reconnected magnetic flux tubes over the surface of the magnetopause, arising from a predominantly low-latitude reconnection site during the prevailing upstream conditions. According to the predictions of the Cooling model, the motion of the FTE observed by TC-1 spacecraft is inferred, which implied that the speed and size of flux tube increase with its poleward moving.-
Key words:
- Magnetic reconnection /
- FTE /
- Cooling model /
- Cluster
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