Substorm current wedge revisited

L Kepko, RL McPherron, O Amm, S Apatenkov… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
Almost 40 years ago the concept of the substorm current wedge was developed to explain
the magnetic signatures observed on the ground and in geosynchronous orbit during …

Magnetotail dipolarization fronts and particle acceleration: A review

H Fu, EE Grigorenko, C Gabrielse, C Liu, S Lu… - Science China Earth …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, the particle acceleration processes around magnetotail dipolarization fronts
(DFs) were reviewed. We summarize the spacecraft observations (including Cluster …

Electron‐scale measurements of dipolarization front

CM Liu, HS Fu, Y Xu, YV Khotyaintsev… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dipolarization front (DF)—a sharp boundary with scale of ion inertial length (c/ωpi) in the
Earth's magnetotail—can also have fine structures at electron scale (c/ωpe). Such electron …

Curlometer technique and applications

MW Dunlop, XC Dong, TY Wang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We review the range of applications and use of the curlometer, initially developed to analyze
Cluster multi‐spacecraft magnetic field data; but more recently adapted to other arrays of …

Electron jet detected by MMS at dipolarization front

CM Liu, HS Fu, A Vaivads… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Using MMS high‐resolution measurements, we present the first observation of fast electron
jet (V e~ 2,000 km/s) at a dipolarization front (DF) in the magnetotail plasma sheet. This jet …

Direct evidence of interchange instabilities at dipolarization fronts

Y Yu, Z Wang, HS Fu, JB Cao - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Using the high‐resolution measurements from magnetospheric multiscale mission, here we
present the observational evidence of kinetic interchange instabilities (ICIs) at dipolarization …

Electromagnetic energy conversion at dipolarization fronts: Multispacecraft results

SY Huang, HS Fu, ZG Yuan, M Zhou… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Dipolarization fronts (DFs) are believed to play important roles in transferring plasmas,
magnetic fluxes, and energies in the magnetotail. Using the Cluster observations in 2003 …

Substorm current wedge composition by wedgelets

J Liu, V Angelopoulos, X Chu… - Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how a substorm current wedge (SCW) is formed is crucial to comprehending
the substorm phenomenon. One SCW formation scenario suggests that the substorm time …

Physical processes of meso-scale, dynamic auroral forms

C Forsyth, VA Sergeev, MG Henderson… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Meso-scale auroral forms, such as poleward boundary intensifications, streamers, omega
bands, beads and giant undulations, are manifestations of dynamic processes in the …

Spatial distribution of Mercury's flux ropes and reconnection fronts: MESSENGER observations

WJ Sun, SY Fu, JA Slavin, JM Raines… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We perform a statistical study of flux ropes and reconnection fronts based on MErcury
Surface, Space ENviroment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) magnetic field and …