Magnetic configuration of the distant plasma sheet - ISEE 3 observationsThe influence of the IMF orientation and magnitude and substorm activity on the magnetic configuration of the central plasma sheet at 20-240 earth radii down the geomagnetic tail is investigated on the basis of ISEE-3 data. The results are presented graphically, and high-speed antisolar bulk flows threaded by southward magnetic fields are shown to be present in the distant plasma sheet after periods of substorm activity and southward IMF Bz. The effective dayside reconnection efficiency is estimated as 25 + or - 4 percent, in good agreement with theoretical models.
Document ID
19880059306
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Slavin, J. A. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Smith, E. J. (California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)
Daly, P. W. (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Katlenburg-Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany, United States)
Sanderson, T. R. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wenzel, K.-P. (ESA Space Science Dept., Noordwijk, Netherlands)
Lepping, R. P. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)