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Magnetic Reconnection Sites Observed by the Cluster Spacecraft: Measurement of Short Timescale Electron Effects
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posted on 2023-06-07, 23:57 authored by A M Buckley, T C Carozzi, M P Gough, E C ChambersSeveral events have been observed by the Cluster spacecraft passing close to magnetic reconnection sites in the tail and magnetopause when the fleet configuration is at short spatial scale (spacecraft separation approximately 100 km). These events are studied in the context of corresponding short time scale electron behaviour which contribute to and result from the reconnection process. This is done primarily using Particle Correlator data from the DWP instruments on Cluster in conjunction with other data sets. The particle correlators use captured time series of electron particle counts accumulated in 12 microsecond time bins measured over the energy range of the PEACE HEEA sensor (40 eV to 26 KeV) and on which an auto-correlation is performed. The phenomena studied concerns beam properties, electron acceleration, interaction with waves and any indications of the electron diffusion processes that are occurring. These phenomena are quantified using measures of the strength of particle-particle interactions (general second order statistics on the electrons) and the Index of Dispersion (variance to mean ratio) indicating bunching or scattering processes.
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1029-7006Publisher
Geophysical Research AbstractsVolume
6Presentation Type
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35th COSPAR Scientific AssemblyEvent location
Nice, FranceEvent type
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