Articles | Volume 36, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-879-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-879-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Magnetic depression and electron transport in an ion-scale flux rope associated with Kelvin–Helmholtz waves
State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Chi Wang
State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Yuri Khotyaintsev
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
Per-Arne Lindqvist
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Robert Ergun
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Olivier Le Contel
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS, Ecole polytechnique, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ. Paris-Sud, Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
Craig Pollock
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Christopher Russell
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
James Burch
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Data sets
The MMS Data MMS Science Data Center https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/
The OMNI data NASA http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Short summary
The Kelvin–Helmholtz waves are believed to be an effective way to transport solar wind mass and energy into Earth's magnetosphere. In this study, we show that the ion-scale flux rope generated at the trailing edge of Kelvin–Helmholtz waves by multiple X-line reconnection could be directly related to this transfer process. The lower hybrid drift waves detected at the edges of the flux rope can also contribute to this process and then affect the revolution of the flux rope.
The Kelvin–Helmholtz waves are believed to be an effective way to transport solar wind mass and...