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Taguchi et al. 2006
Taguchi, S., Hosokawa, K., Nakao, A., Collier, M.R., Moore, T.E., Yamazaki, A., Sato, N. and Yukimatu, A.S. (2006). Neutral atom emission in the direction of the high-latitude magnetopause for northward IMF: Simultaneous observations from IMAGE spacecraft and SuperDARN radar. Geophysical Research Letters 33: doi: 10.1029/2005GL025020. issn: 0094-8276.

During a northward interplanetary magnetic field on 27 March 2001, the Low Energy Neutral Atom (LENA) imager on the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) spacecraft in the magnetosphere observed an enhanced emission in the direction of the very high-latitude magnetopause. Simultaneous observations from IMAGE/LENA and SuperDARN radar show that the LENA emission appears concurrently with the enhancement of the sunward flow of the reverse convection in the ionosphere. The field line mapping from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere suggests that the source ions for the LENA emission are in the sunward flow region. Although the direction of the emission is relatively stable, its direction changes slightly so that the emission may shift poleward or equatorward. From these observations, we suggest that LENA can monitor the ion entry caused by cusp reconnection and that the reconnection site moves on a timescale of several minutes.

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Keywords
Magnetospheric Physics, Cusp, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetic reconnection (7526, 7835), Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetopause and boundary layers, Magnetospheric Physics, Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions, Ionosphere, Plasma convection
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Geophysical Research Letters
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