Outer Magnetospheric Boundaries: Cluster Results

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • G. Paschmann, C. P. Escoubet, S. J. Schwartz, S. E. Haaland

      Pages 1-4

3. Solar Wind, Foreshock, Magnetosheath

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. The Near-Earth Solar Wind

      • M. L. Goldstein, J. P. Eastwood, R. A. Treumann, E. A. Lucek, J. Pickett, P. Décréau

      Pages 7-39

   3. The Foreshock

      • J. P. Eastwood, E. A. Lucek, C. Mazelle, K. Meziane, Y. Narita, J. Pickett et al.

      Pages 41-94

   4. The Magnetosheath

      • E. A. Lucek, D. Constantinescu, M. L. Goldstein, J. Pickett, J. L. Pinçon, F. Sahraoui et al.

      Pages 95-152

4. The Bow Shock

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Cluster at the Bow Shock: Introduction

      • A. Balogh, S. J. Schwartz, S. D. Bale, M. A. Balikhin, D. Burgess, T. S. Horbury et al.

      Pages 155-160

   3. Quasi-perpendicular Shock Structure and Processes

      • S. D. Bale, M. A. Balikhin, T. S. Horbury, V. V. Krasnoselskikh, H. Kucharek, E. Möbius et al.

      Pages 161-203

   4. Quasi-parallel Shock Structure and Processes

      • D. Burgess, E. A. Lucek, M. Scholer, S. D. Bale, M. A. Balikhin, A. Balogh et al.

      Pages 205-222

   5. Cluster at the Bow Shock: Status and Outlook

      • M. Scholer, M. F. Thomsen, D. Burgess, S. D. Bale, M. A. Balikhin, A. Balogh et al.

      Pages 223-227

5. Magnetopause and CUSP

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Magnetopause and Boundary Layer

      • J. De Keyser, M. W. Dunlop, C. J. Owen, B. U. Ö. Sonnerup, S. E. Haaland, A. Vaivads et al.

      Pages 231-320

   3. Cluster at the Magnetospheric Cusps

      • P. J. Cargill, B. Lavraud, C. J. Owen, B. Grison, M. W. Dunlop, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin et al.

      Pages 321-366

   4. Magnetopause Processes

      • T. D. Phan, C. P. Escoubet, L. Rezeau, R. A. Treumann, A. Vaivads, G. Paschmann et al.

      Pages 367-424

6. Back Matter

   Pages 425-431

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8. 8 Boundary Layer Structure and Detached Plasma 305 8. 8. 1 Background 305 8. 8. 2 Structure inside the boundary layer 306 8. 8. 3 Observation of detached plasma 308 8. 8. 4 Summary 309 8. 9 Summary and Conclusions 310 References 312 9. CLUSTER AT THE MAGNETOSPHERIC CUSPS 321 9. 1 Introduction 321 9. 1. 1 Previous work 323 9. 1. 2 How Cluster investigates the cusp 325 9. 2 The High-Altitude Cusp 326 9. 2. 1 March 17, 2001 328 9. 2. 2 February 4, 2001 332 9. 2. 3 February 13, 2001 337 9. 2. 4 Statistical survey 340 9. 2. 5 Waves and turbulence 343 9. 3 The Mid-Altitude Cusp 352 9. 3. 1 Structure: Case study 352 9. 3. 2 Structure: Statistical survey 354 9. 3. 3 Ionospheric ions 354 9. 3. 4 Mid-altitude signatures of the LLBL 357 9. 4 Discussion 359 References 360 10. MAGNETOPAUSE PROCESSES 367 10. 1 Magnetopause Reconnection 368 10. 1. 1 Intermittent vs. quasi-steady reconnection 368 10. 1. 2 Component vs. anti-parallel reconnection 382 10. 1. 3 Tailward-of-the-cusp reconnection 385 10. 1. 4 Quantitative tests of reconnection occurrence 388 10. 1. 5 Summary 391 10. 2 Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability at the Flank Magnetopause 391 10. 3 Microphysics of Magnetopause Processes 396 10. 3. 1 Collisionless generalised Ohm’s law 397 10. 3. 2 Ion di?usion region observations 398 10. 3. 3 High-frequency waves 402 10. 3. 4 Lower-hybrid waves 405 10. 3.

• Magnetic field
• Plasma
• Solar wind
• Sun
• Universe
• cluster
• collision
• solar

• ISSI, Bern, Switzerland

  G. Paschmann

• Imperial College, London, UK

  S. J. Schwartz

• ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

  C. P. Escoubet

• MPE, Garching, Germany

  S. Haaland

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