supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2014CB845903,2012CB825604);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41211120176,41274167,41031065,41374166,41330104,41374171);the National R&D Projectsfor Key Scientific Instruments(ZDYZ2012-1-01);UK Science and Technology Facilities Council grant(ST/L005638/1)at UCL/MSSL;China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2014M550826)
Using in situ observations from THEMIS A, D and E during the 2008–2011 tail season, we present a statistical study of the evolution of pressure gradients in the near-Earth tail during bursty bulk flow(BBF) convection...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41031065,41074106,and 40974095);the Shandong Natural Science Foundation(JQ201112)
The motion and deceleration processes of plasma sheet high-speed flows have great significance to magnetospheric particle acceleration,magnetic field perturbation,magnetic flux transport,triggering of substorm,and the...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41031065,41074106 and 40874086);Shandong Natural Science Foundation(JQ201112);partly by the National Basic Research Program of China(2011CB811404)
A flapping wave was observed by THEMIS-B(P1)and THEMIS-C(P2)probes on the dawn side of the magnetotail,while the solar wind was generally stable.The magnetic activity was quite weak,suggesting that this flapping wave ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40874086 and 41031065);the National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB811404)
The strong field-aligned pitch angle distribution of electrons is observed right at the dipolarization front (DF) before the arriving of a high speed flow when the four Cluster satellites are traveling in the magnetot...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40874086 and 41031065);the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories (08262DAA4S)
A research topic of great interest to the space physics community is the observation of plasmas flowing at hundreds of kilometers per second in the Earth’s plasma sheet. Although considerable effort has been made to ...
supported by the KIP Pilot Project of the Chinese Academy of Scineces(KZCX2-YW-123);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41004072,41031065,41074106,41074117,40974090,40874088 and 40831061);the National Basic Research Program of China(2011CB811405)
It is believed that a southward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is mainly responsible for the energy input from solar wind into the magnetosphere.This paper presents an unusual case of strong anti-sunward plasma f...