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spelling Ge, Y. S. Russell, C. T. 0094-8276 1944-8007 American Geophysical Union (AGU) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Geophysics http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005gl024574 <jats:p>We have examined the magnetic field at the apogee of the Polar spacecraft for three seasons during which time apogee was close to the equatorial plane and within 2 hours of midnight. The magnetic field magnitude in this region is rarely below 5 nT. However, when it is low, the magnetic field is very dynamic, with current sheet thinnings, plasma sheet expansions, and magnetic field dipolarizations. At times of low magnetic field strength we have examined the component normal to the magnetospheric equator for the presence of southward magnetic fields. However, in the period studied only northward fields were present in this region with one brief exception due to a bent current layer and not due to local reconnection. Thus it is very rare that the neutral point is as close as 9 R<jats:sub>E</jats:sub>.</jats:p> Polar survey of magnetic field in near tail: Reconnection rare inside 9 R<sub>E</sub> Geophysical Research Letters
spellingShingle Ge, Y. S., Russell, C. T., Geophysical Research Letters, Polar survey of magnetic field in near tail: Reconnection rare inside 9 RE, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics
title Polar survey of magnetic field in near tail: Reconnection rare inside 9 RE
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title_sort polar survey of magnetic field in near tail: reconnection rare inside 9 r<sub>e</sub>
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topic General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geophysics
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