EGU22-11431, updated on 21 Feb 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-11431
EGU General Assembly 2022
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Multispacecraft wave diagnostics of the flapping motion of the magnetotail current sheet

Bohdan Petrenko1,2, Elena Kronberg3, and Elena Grigorenko4
Bohdan Petrenko et al.
  • 1Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 2Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 3Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 4Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

The flapping motion of the magnetotail current sheet has a valuable contribution to magnetosphere dynamics. We have investigated features of flapping motions involving single- and multi-spacecraft methods using MMS and Cluster measurements. Velocities of dawn-dusk propagation of these motions and their types have been determined using Harris current sheet model and minimum variance analysis of the magnetic field. Dispersion features of such wavy motions using the phase differencing technique were explored.             

This work was carried out in accordance with the Target Comprehensive Program of the SRI NASU and SSAU in plasma physics with the support of grant no. 97742 of the Volkswagen Foundation (VW-Stiftung). 

How to cite: Petrenko, B., Kronberg, E., and Grigorenko, E.: Multispacecraft wave diagnostics of the flapping motion of the magnetotail current sheet, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-11431, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-11431, 2022.