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Lepping et al. 1995

Lepping, R.P., Farfield, D.H., Jones, J., Frank, L.A., Paterson, W.R. and Yamamoto, T. (1995). Cross-tail magnetic flux ropes as observed by the GEOTAIL spacecraft. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL01114. issn: 0094-8276.

Ten transient magnetic structures in Earth's magnetotail, as observed in GEOTAIL measurements, selected for early 1993 [at (-) XGSM=90-130 RE>, are shown to have helical magnetic field configurations similar to those of interplanetary magnetic clouds at 1 AU but smaller in size by a factor of ≈700. Such structures are shown to be well approximated by a comprehensive magnetic force-free flux-rope model. For this limited set of 10 events the rope axes are seen to be typically aligned with the YGSM axis and the average diameter of these structures is ≈15 RE. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma sheet, Space Plasma Physics, Kinetic and MHD theory, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Magnetic fields

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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