TY - JOUR

T1 - Reconstruction of the reconnection rate from Cluster measurements: Method improvements

AU - Ivanova, V.V.

AU - Semenov, V.S.

AU - Penz, T.

AU - Ivanov, I.B.

AU - Sergeev, V.A.

AU - M.F., Heyn

AU - Farrugia, C.J.

AU - Biernat, H.K.

AU - Nakamura, R.

AU - Baumjohann, W.

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - [1] A remote-sensing method for reconstructing the reconnection rate and the location of X-line from single-spacecraft observations developed recently is extended to a compressible plasma and an asymmetric magnetic field configuration. The method is based on the two-dimensional analytical model of time-dependent Petschek-type magnetic reconnection. The reconstruction technique is applied to a nightside flux transfer event recorded by Cluster spacecraft in the near-Earth magnetotail on 26 September 2005. The reconnection rate is found to be 3.7-4.8 mV/m; the reconnection distance is around 9-11 Re in the tail. Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union.

AB - [1] A remote-sensing method for reconstructing the reconnection rate and the location of X-line from single-spacecraft observations developed recently is extended to a compressible plasma and an asymmetric magnetic field configuration. The method is based on the two-dimensional analytical model of time-dependent Petschek-type magnetic reconnection. The reconstruction technique is applied to a nightside flux transfer event recorded by Cluster spacecraft in the near-Earth magnetotail on 26 September 2005. The reconnection rate is found to be 3.7-4.8 mV/m; the reconnection distance is around 9-11 Re in the tail. Copyright 2007 by the American Geophysical Union.

U2 - 10.1029/2006JA012183

DO - 10.1029/2006JA012183

M3 - Article

VL - 112

JO - Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

JF - Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

SN - 0148-0227

ER -