日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会

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セッション記号 P (宇宙惑星科学) » P-EM 太陽地球系科学・宇宙電磁気学・宇宙環境

[P-EM37_30PM2] 磁気圏構造とダイナミクス

2014年4月30日(水) 16:15 〜 17:30 414 (4F)

コンビーナ:*三好 由純(名古屋大学太陽地球環境研究所)、長谷川 洋(宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所)、座長:三好 由純(名古屋大学太陽地球環境研究所)、藤田 茂(気象庁気象大学校)

16:45 〜 17:00

[PEM37-17] 二点観測を用いた地球磁気圏界面三次元フラックスロープ構造の再現

*長谷川 洋1Sonnerup Bengt2Eriksson Stefan3中村 琢磨4 (1.JAXA宇宙科学研究所、2.ダートマス大学、3.コロラド大学、4.ロスアラモス国立研究所)

キーワード:磁気圏界面, 磁気フラックスロープ, 磁気リコネクション, 磁気静水圧平衡, 編隊観測

We present first results of a data analysis method, developed by Sonnerup and Hasegawa [2011], for reconstructing three-dimensional (3-D), magnetohydrostatic structures from data taken as two closely spaced satellites traverse the structures. The method is applied to a flux transfer event (FTE), which was encountered on 27 June 2007 by at least three (TH-C, TH-D, and TH-E) of the five THEMIS probes and was situated between two oppositely directed reconnection jets near the subsolar magnetopause under a southward interplanetary magnetic field condition. The recovered 3-D field indicates that a magnetic flux rope with a diameter of about 3000 km was embedded in the magnetopause. The FTE flux rope obviously had a significantly 3-D structure, because the 3-D field reconstructed from the data from TH-C and TH-D (separated by 390 km) better predicts magnetic field variations actually measured along the TH-E path than does the 2-D Grad-Shafranov reconstruction [Hau and Sonnerup, 1999] using the data from TH-C (which was closer to TH-E than TH-D and was at about 1000 km from TH-E). Such a 3-D nature suggests that reconnected field lines from the two reconnection sites may have been entangled in a complicated way through their interaction with each other. The generation process of the observed 3-D flux rope is discussed on the basis of the reconstruction results and anisotropy of observed electron pitch-angle distributions. Reference: Hau, L.-N., and B. U. O. Sonnerup (1999), Two-dimensional coherent structures in the magnetopause: Recovery of static equilibria from single-spacecraft data, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 104, 6899-6917.Sonnerup, B. U. O., and H. Hasegawa (2011), Reconstruction of steady, three-dimensional, magnetohydrostatic field and plasma structures in space: Theory and benchmarking, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 116, A09230, doi:10.1029/2011JA016675.