Session KZ2: Mini-conference on Dynamics of Magnetic Flux Tubes in Space and Laboratory Plasmas I

9:30 AM–12:30 PM, Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Adam's Mark Hotel Room: Governor's Square 14

Chair: Michael Hesse, NASA Goddard

Abstract ID: BAPS.2005.DPP.KZ2.7

Abstract: KZ2.00007 : Flux Transfer Events: Flux Ropes at Earth's Magnetopause

12:00 PM–12:30 PM

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Author:

  Joachim Raeder
    (University of New Hampshire)

We give a brief introduction into the observational evidence for flux ropes at Earth's magnetopause, also known as Flux Transfer Events (FTEs). We will then discuss global magnetosphere simulations that show how FTEs form and what parameters the formation process depends on.

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