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LOW-ALTITUDE OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING OF QUASI-STEADY MAGNETOPAUSE RECONNECTION


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dc.creatorOnsager, T
dc.creatorChang, Shen-Wu
dc.creatorPEREZ, J
dc.creatorAUSTIN, J
dc.creatorJANOO, L
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-29T19:24:06Z
dc.date.available2022-09-29T19:24:06Z
dc.date.created1995
dc.identifier10.1029/94JA02702en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/94JA02702en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50368
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-436
dc.description.abstractData from two near-conjugate passes of DE 1 and DE 2 through the cusp/cleft region of the Earth's magnetosphere are presented and compared with model calculations of particle transport from the solar wind to spacecraft locations in the magnetosphere. Comparison of the observed and calculated particle spectra shows that the model can successfully match the spectra at both spacecraft using the same model parameters. This demonstrates that the modeling technique is applicable at both high and low altitudes. We are also able to conclude that the particles originate from a fairly narrow spatial region on the magnetopause even though magnetosheath plasma has access to the magnetosphere over the entire magnetopause in the model. The success of the model in reproducing key features of the observed spectra and the fact that the two satellites in near magnetic conjunction but at different altitudes observed similar, distinctive features at times separated by 10 - 20 min demonstrates that there are quasi-stationary, spatial features in the cusp/cleft region of the Earth's magnetosphere.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2169-9380en_US
dc.rights©American Geophysical Union 1995. This is this the version of record co-published by the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Onsager, T. G., et al. "Low‐altitude observations and modeling of quasi‐steady magnetopause reconnection." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 100.A7 (1995): 11831-11843.en_US
dc.titleLOW-ALTITUDE OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING OF QUASI-STEADY MAGNETOPAUSE RECONNECTIONen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume100en_US
dc.citation.issueA7en_US
dc.citation.spage11831en_US
dc.citation.epage11843en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US

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