@inproceedings{Marchaudon:2006,
author = {Marchaudon, A and Owen, CJ and Bosqued, JM and Fear, RC and Fazakerley, AN and Dunlop, MW and Lahiff, AD and Carr, C and Balogh, A and Lindqvist, PA and Rème, H},
pages = {163--170},
title = {Simultaneous double star and cluster ftes observations on the dawnside flank of the magnetosphere},
year = {2006}
}

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - We present Cluster and Double Star-1 (TC-1) observations from a close magnetic conjunction on May 8, 2004. The five spacecraft were on the dawnside flank of the magnetosphere, with TC-1 located near the equatorial plane and Cluster at higher geographic latitudes in the southern hemisphere. TC-1, at its apogee, skimmed the magnetopause for almost 8 hours (between 08:00-16:00 UT). Flux Transfer Events (FTEs), moving southward/tailward from the reconnection site, were observed by TC-1 throughout almost all of the period. Cluster, travelling on a mainly dawn-dusk trajectory, crossed the magnetopause at around 10:30 UT in the same Magnetic Local Time (MLT) sector as TC-1 and remained close to the magnetopause boundary layer in the southern hemisphere. The four Cluster spacecraft observed FTEs for a period of 6.5 hours between 07:30 and 14:00 UT. From the properties of these FTEs, the reconnection site was located northward of both TC-1 and Cluster on the dawn flank of the magnetosphere. Reconnection occurred between draped magnetosheath and closed magnetospheric field lines. Despite variable interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) conditions and IMF-B z turnings, the IMF clock-angle remained greater than 70° and the location site appeared to remain relatively stable in position during the whole period. This result is in agreement with previous studies which reported that the dayside reconnection remained active for an IMF clock-angle greater than 70°. The simultaneous observation of FTEs at both Cluster and TC-1, separated by 2 hours in MLT, implies that the reconnection site on the magnetopause must have been extended over several hours in MLT. This event has been already presented in more details in [1].
AU  - Marchaudon,A
AU  - Owen,CJ
AU  - Bosqued,JM
AU  - Fear,RC
AU  - Fazakerley,AN
AU  - Dunlop,MW
AU  - Lahiff,AD
AU  - Carr,C
AU  - Balogh,A
AU  - Lindqvist,PA
AU  - Rème,H
EP  - 170
PY  - 2006///
SN  - 0379-6566
SP  - 163
TI  - Simultaneous double star and cluster ftes observations on the dawnside flank of the magnetosphere
ER  - 

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