Plasma entry from the flanks of the near‐Earth magnetotail: Geotail observations

M Fujimoto, T Terasawa, T Mukai… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Geotail observations of the low‐latitude boundary layer (LLBL) in the near–Earth tail flanks
are reported. Cold‐dense stagnant ions, which are likely to be of the magnetosheath origin …

The cold-dense plasma sheet: A GEOTAIL perspective

M Fujimoto, T Terasawa, T Mukai - Space Science Reviews, 1997 - Springer
GEOTAIL observations of the low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL) in the tail-flanks show that
they are the region where the cold-dense plasma appears with stagnant flow signatures …

A scenario for solar wind penetration of Earth's magnetic tail based on ion composition data from the ISEE 1 spacecraft

W Lennartsson - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Energetic (0.1‐16 keV/e) ion data from the Plasma Composition Experiment on the ISEE 1
spacecraft show that Earth's plasma sheet (inside of 23 RE) always has a large population of …

Origin of temperature anisotropies in the cold plasma sheet: Geotail observations around the Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices

MN Nishino, M Fujimoto, G Ueno… - Annales …, 2007 - angeo.copernicus.org
To further our understanding of the solar wind entry across the magnetopause under
northward IMF, we perform a case study of a duskside Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) vortex event …

Mapping the auroral oval into the magnetotail using Dynamics Explorer plasma data

LA Weiss, PH Reiff, RV Hilmer… - … of geomagnetism and …, 1992 - jstage.jst.go.jp
1. Introduction Significant controversy persists regarding the regions in the magnetotail to
which the discrete and diffuse aurorae map (FELDSTEIN and GALPERIN, 1985; SANDAHL …

Geotail observations of temperature anisotropy of the two-component protons in the dusk plasma sheet

MN Nishino, M Fujimoto, T Terasawa… - Annales …, 2007 - angeo.copernicus.org
In search for clues towards the understanding of the cold plasma sheet formation under
northward IMF, we study the temperature anisotropy of the two-component protons in the …

Antisunward decay of polar cap arcs

JV Rodriguez, CE Valladares, K Fukui… - Journal of …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Data from an all‐sky imaging photometer (427.8 and 630.0 nm) in the central polar cap, the
IMP 8 and ISEE 2 satellites in the solar wind, and the DMSP F6, F7, and F8 satellites in the …

Transport Path of Cold‐Dense Plasmas in the Dusk Magnetotail Plasma Sheet: MMS Observations

MN Nishino, H Hasegawa, Y Saito… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The near‐Earth plasma sheet becomes cold and dense under northward interplanetary
magnetic field (IMF) condition, which suggests efficient solar wind plasma entry into the …

Geotail observations of two-component protons in the midnight plasma sheet

MN Nishino, M Fujimoto, G Ueno… - Annales …, 2007 - angeo.copernicus.org
Through the effort to obtain clues toward understanding of transport of cold plasma in the
near-Earth magnetotail under northward IMF, we find that two-component protons are …

The low-latitude boundary layer in the tail-flanks

M Fujimoto, T Terasawa… - Geophysical Monograph …, 1998 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Geotail observations of the low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL) in the tail-flanks show that it is
where the cold-dense ions appear with stagnant flow signatures accompanied by bi …