| Cluster observations of large-scale southward movement and dawnward-duskward flapping of Earth’s magnetotail current sheet | |
| AiYing Duan; JinBin Cao; YuDuan Ma; XinHua Wei; 北京8701信箱 | |
| Department | 空间天气学国家重点实验室 |
| Source Publication | Science China Technological Sciences
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| 2013 | |
| Volume | 56Issue:1Pages:194-204 |
| ISSN | 1674-7321 |
| Language | 英语 |
| Keyword | Flattened Current Sheet Tilted Current Sheet Flapping Motion Bbfs |
| Other Abstract | In August 2001, Cluster satellites observed that the mid-tail current sheet (CS) moved southward continuously for almost seven hours. Meanwhile, Cluster crossed back and forth the CS repeatedly. This means that the large-scale southward movement of the CS was accompanied by a small-scale CS flapping during this period. Using the minimum-variation-analysis (MVA) method and the multi-spacecraft data, we calculated the normal vector, current density and the magnetic curvature of the CS, the results showed that the CS alternated between flattened CS and tilted CS for several times. Strong dawn-dusk oscillations were found for the tilted CS, which caused the repeated crossings of the center of CS by the satellites. This feature is obviously different from the previous observations of the vertical flapping of the CS induced by the kink instability. Two types of flapping were observed: One of them is accompanied with bursty bulk flows (BBFs) and the other is not. This suggests that in this event there was no direct relationship between the CS flapping and BBFs. |
| Funding Project | 中国科学院空间科学与应用研究中心 |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.nssc.ac.cn/handle/122/1510 |
| Collection | 空间科学部 |
| Corresponding Author | 北京8701信箱 |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | AiYing Duan,JinBin Cao,YuDuan Ma,等. Cluster observations of large-scale southward movement and dawnward-duskward flapping of Earth’s magnetotail current sheet[J]. Science China Technological Sciences,2013,56(1):194-204. |
| APA | AiYing Duan,JinBin Cao,YuDuan Ma,XinHua Wei,&北京8701信箱.(2013).Cluster observations of large-scale southward movement and dawnward-duskward flapping of Earth’s magnetotail current sheet.Science China Technological Sciences,56(1),194-204. |
| MLA | AiYing Duan,et al."Cluster observations of large-scale southward movement and dawnward-duskward flapping of Earth’s magnetotail current sheet".Science China Technological Sciences 56.1(2013):194-204. |
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