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Runov et al. 2003
Runov, A., Nakamura, R., Baumjohann, W., Zhang, T.L., Volwerk, M., Eichelberger, H.-U. and Balogh, A. (2003). Cluster observation of a bifurcated current sheet. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL016136. issn: 0094-8276.

The current sheet structure and motion at XGSM = -19.5 RE, observed by Cluster/FGM during 1055--1107 UT on 29 August 2001, is examined. It is found that during the interval 1055--1102 UT the current sheet moves vertically up and down with a velocity of about 60 km/s. During this interval the current sheet has a bifurcated structure: electric current is concentrated in two sheets with an extended layer of weak nearly uniform magnetic field in between. In the interval 1103--1107 UT the current sheet moves slowly upward and the current sheet has a Harris-type structure. By using four-spacecraft timing analysis, it is shown that the fast motion and bifurcation of the current sheet are associated with a wave-like transient propagating in the dawn-to-dusk direction.

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma sheet
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Geophysical Research Letters
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