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Concerning the motion of ftes and attendant signatures
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Sibeck, David G. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Description | We employ the Cooling et al. [2001] model to predict the location, orientation, and motion of flux transfer events (FTEs) generated along finite length component and anti parallel reconnection lines for typical solar wind plasma conditions and various interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) orientations in the plane perpendicular to the SunEarth line at the solstices and equinoxes. For duskward and northward or southward IMF orientations, events formed by component reconnection originate along reconnection curves passing through the sub solar point that tilt from southern dawn to northern dusk. They maintain this orientation as they move either northward into the northern dawn quadrant or southward into the southern dusk quadrant. By contrast, events formed by antiparallel reconnection originate along reconnection curves running from northern dawn to southern dusk in the southern dawn and northern dusk quadrants and maintain these orientations as they move anti sunward into both these quadrants. Although both the component and antiparallel reconnection models can explain previously reported event orientations on the southern dusk magnetopause during intervals of northward and dawn ward IMF orientation, only the component model explains event occurrence near the subsolar magnetopause during intervals when the IMF does not point due southward. |
| File Size | 356169 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20110008587 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1gj4gh6v |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2010-12-13 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Wind Direction Position Location Quadrants Magnetopause Plasma Interactions Solar Wind Solstices Twilight Glow Flux Transfer Events Interplanetary Magnetic Fields Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
