supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40774081);Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2011CB811404);the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories
An ion flux dropout near the dipolarization front(DF) at around XGSM=-11 REin the Earth's plasma sheet was observed by Time History of Events and Macroscale Interaction during substorms(THEMIS) on March31, 2009. The i...
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(40974099,40731054,40704027 and 40921063);the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories and the National Basic Research Program of China(2011CB811404)
Low frequency electromagnetic fluctuations in the vicinity of a magnetospheric substorm onset were investigated using simultaneous observations by THEMIS multiple probes in the near-Earth plasma sheet in the magnetota...
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 National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.40804046,40890160 and 40731054);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2006CB806304);the Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratories
Two interplanetary shocks are examined to determine the responses of the magnetic field and plasma in the plasma sheet upon the shock impacts by using TC-1 observational data.The two shocks are observed by WIND on Nov...