Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-18-2009
Publication Title
Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
We present auroral evidence for multiple and, most probably, small-scale reconnection in the near-Earth magnetospheric plasma sheet current layer during auroral activity. Hall currents as the source of upward and downward field-aligned currents require the generation of the corresponding electron fluxes. The auroral spatial ordering in a multiple sequence of these fluxes requires the assumption of the existence of several —and possibly— even many tailward reconnection sites.
DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/85/49001
Original Citation
R. A. Treumann et al 2009 EPL 85 49001
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Treumann, R. A.; Jaroschek, C. H.; and Pottelette, R., "Auroral Evidence for Multiple Reconnection in the Magnetospheric Tail Plasma Sheet" (2009). Dartmouth Scholarship. 839.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/839
