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Plasma flow channels with ULF waves observed by Cluster and Double Star
1Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-8042 Graz, Austria
2Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, D-85741 Garching, Germany
3TU Braunschweig, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
4Imperial College, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
5CESR/CNRS, F-31028 Toulouse, France
Abstract. On 14 August 2004 a large-scale magnetic structure was observed by Double Star TC-1 in the southern lobe and by Cluster in the northern lobe of the magnetotail. The structure has the signature of a (localized) dipolarization, decreasing Bx accompanied by an increasing Bz and a strong earthward flow. The propagation direction of this structure, however, seems to be more in the dawnward direction than earthward. The structure is accompanied by ULF waves with a period of ~5 min, which are simultaneously observed by the ground magnetometer station DIK, at the magnetic footpoints of the spacecraft. We interprete these waves as modes driven by the plasma flow and propagating in the flow channel.
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Citation: Volwerk, M., Zhang, T. L., Nakamura, R., Runov, A., Baumjohann, W., Glassmeier, K.-H., Takada, T., Eichelberger, H. U., Carr, C. M., Balogh, A., Klecker, B., and Rème, H.: Plasma flow channels with ULF waves observed by Cluster and Double Star, Ann. Geophys., 23, 2929-2935, 2005. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
