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Runov et al. 2003
Runov, A., Nakamura, R., Baumjohann, W., Treumann, R.A., Zhang, T.L., Volwerk, M., Vörös, Z., Balogh, A., Glaßmeier, K.-H., Klecker, B., Rème, H. and Kistler, L. (2003). Current sheet structure near magnetic X-line observed by Cluster. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL016730. issn: 0094-8276.

During the interval 0947--0951 UT on 1 October 2001, when Cluster was located at XGSM = -16.4 RE near ZGSM = 0 in the pre-midnight magnetotail, the Cluster barycenter crosses the neutral sheet four times. High speed proton flow, with reversal from tailward to Earthward, was detected during the crossings. Using a linear gradient/curl estimator technique we estimate current density and magnetic field curvature within the crossings. These observations exhibit the tailward passage of an X-line over the Cluster tetrahedron. These current sheet has a bifurcated structure in the regions of tailward and earthward flows and a flat and/or slightly bifurcated thin current sheet in between. A distinct quadrupolar Hall magnetic field component was observed.

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetotail, Magnetospheric Physics, Plasma sheet, Space Plasma Physics, Magnetic reconnection
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Geophysical Research Letters
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