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Mulligan et al. 2001
Mulligan, T., Russell, C.T., Anderson, B.J. and Acuna, M.H. (2001). Multiple spacecraft flux rope modeling of the Bastille Day magnetic cloud. Geophysical Research Letters 28: doi: 10.1029/2001GL013293. issn: 0094-8276.

The Bastille Day magnetic cloud in July 2000 occurred with NEAR in conjunction with the Earth at a radial distance of 1.76 AU and 1.9¿ from the Earth-Sun line. Propagation time from ACE at 0.99 AU to NEAR indicates the cloud did not decelerate significantly between the Earth and 1.76 AU. Using a non-force-free, kinematic flux rope model we find the rope contained 130 TWb of magnetic flux, was oriented with clock and cone angles of 50¿ and 83¿, and had a radius of 0.25 AU at ACE. At NEAR its radius had expanded to 0.43 AU. Simultaneous modeling of ACE and NEAR data indicate the axial and poloidal magnetic fields vary as R-1.4 and R-1.2 where R is heliocentric distance. Magnetosheath thicknesses of 0.14 AU and 0.23 AU indicate the rope cross section is elongated normal to the cloud axis and the radial direction. ¿ 2001 American Geophysical Union

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Interplanetary Physics, Ejecta, driver gases, and magnetic clouds, Interplanetary Physics, Interplanetary magnetic fields, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Coronal mass ejections, Solar Physics, Astrophysics, and Astronomy, Magnetic fields
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Geophysical Research Letters
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