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Magnetic Flux Closure Directly Induced by Interplanetary Shocks: Observations Using IMAGE-FUV and SuperDARN, and Modelling With GUMICS-4.
Hubert, Benoît; Palmroth, M.; Milan, S. E. et al.
2005AGU Fall meeting
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Keywords :
2139 Interplanetary shocks; 2704 Auroral phenomena (2407); 2723 Magnetic reconnection (7526; 7835); 2776 Polar cap phenomena; 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
Abstract :
[en] A method has been developed to monitor the dayside and nightside reconnection rates using FUV remote sensing of the proton aurora and ionospheric convection patterns. Global images of the proton aurora are obtained using the SI12 instrument of the FUV experiment on board the IMAGE satellite, and used to identify the open/closed (o/c) field line boundary. SuperDARN data are used to determine the ionospheric convection velocity, and the associated electric field. The dayside and nightside reconnection voltages are then determined accounting for the ionospheric electric field and the motion of the o/c boundary. This method is used to compute the dayside and nightside reconnection voltages during two interplanetary shocks for which the IMF was mostly northward, so that the amount of open magnetic flux was so small that no significant substorm expansion phase could develop. The flux closure voltage shows a sharp signature when the interplanetary shocks sweep by the nightside magnetosphere. MHD simulations conducted using the GUMICS-4 model for similar conditions show a similar signature in the nightside flux closure rate. We suggest that this flux closure event is directly induced by the compression of the magnetotail.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Hubert, Benoît  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Palmroth, M.;  Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space Research, Vuorikatu, 15A, PO Box 503, Helsinki, FIN 00101
Milan, S. E.;  Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, GBR LE1 7RH
Janhunen, P.;  Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space Research, Vuorikatu, 15A, PO Box 503, Helsinki, FIN 00101
Kauristie, K.;  Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space Research, Vuorikatu, 15A, PO Box 503, Helsinki, FIN 00101
Cowley, Stanley W.H.;  Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, GBR LE1 7RH
Pulkkinen, T. I.;  Finnish Meteorological Institute, Space Research, Vuorikatu, 15A, PO Box 503, Helsinki, FIN 00101
Gérard, Jean-Claude  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Language :
English
Title :
Magnetic Flux Closure Directly Induced by Interplanetary Shocks: Observations Using IMAGE-FUV and SuperDARN, and Modelling With GUMICS-4.
Publication date :
01 December 2005
Event name :
AGU Fall meeting
Event organizer :
AMerican Geophysical Union
Event place :
San Francisco, United States
Event date :
2005
Audience :
International
Peer reviewed :
Editorial reviewed
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