Space Plasma Physics Group 
Publications in 2006

Refereed
 

ALEXEEV, I.V., V. Sergeev, C.J. OWEN, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, E. Lucek and H. Reme, Remote sensing of a magnetotail reconnection X-line using polar rain electrons,  Geophys. Res. Lett, 33, L19105, doi:10.1029/2006GL027243, 2006. 

Amata, E., S. Savin, M. Andre, M. Dunlop, Y. Khotyaintsev, M.F. Marcucci, A. FAZAKERLEY, Y.V. BOGDANOVA, P.M.E. Decreau, J.L. Rauch, J.G. Trotignon, A. Skalsky, S. Romanov, J. Buechner, J. Blecki, H. Reme, Experimental study of nonlinear interaction of plasma flow with charged thin current sheets: 1. Boundary structure and motion, Nonlin. Processes Geophys, v.13, issue 4, p. 365-376, 2006. 

Asano, Y., R. Nakamura, A. Runov, W. Baumjohann, C. McIlwain, G. Paschmann, J. Quinn, I. ALEXEEV, J.P. DEWHURST, C.J. OWEN, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, A. Balogh, H. Reme, and B. Klecker, Detailed analysis of low-energy electron streaming in the near-Earth neutral line region during a substorm, Adv. Space. Res., 37, p. 1382-1387, 2006

Ashour-Abdalla M., J. N. Leboeuf, D. Schriver, J.-M. Bosqued, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin, V. Sotnikov, A. Marchaudon, A. N. FAZAKERLEY, Instabilities driven by ion shell distributions observed by Cluster in the midaltitude plasma sheet boundary layer, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A10223, doi:10.1029/2005JA011490, 2006

Balan, N. , Alleyne, H., Walker, S., Réme, H., Décréau, P. M. E., Balogh, A., André, M., FAZAKERLEY, A. N., Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N., Gurnett, D., and Fraenz, M., Cluster observations of a structured magnetospheric cusp, Ann. Geophys, 24, Page(s) 1015-1027. SRef-ID: 1432-0576/ag/2006-24-1015

BOGDANOVA, Y.V., C.J. OWEN, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, B. Klecker and H. Reme, Statistical study of the location and size of the electron edge of the Low-Latitude Boundary Layer as observed by Cluster at mid-altitudes, Ann. Geophys., 2645-2665, SRef-ID:1432-0576/ag/2006-24-2645, 2006.

Bosqued, J. M., M. Ashour-Abdalla, A. Marchaudon, H. Laakso, T. Umeda, M. El Alaoui, V. Peroomian, H. Rème, G. Paschmann, M. Dunlop, and A. FAZAKERLEY, Cluster observations of energetic ionospheric ion beams in the auroral region: Acceleration and associated energy-dispersed precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12102, doi:10.1029/2006GL025708.

Davies J.A., M.W. Dunlop, C.H. Perry, M. Lockwood, I.A. ALEXEEV, M.G.G.T. TAYLOR, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, C.J. OWEN, A. MARCHAUDON, R.H.W. Friedel, X.H. Deng, M. Grande, and P.W. Daly, Energetic electron signatures in an active magnetotail plasma sheet,  Adv. Space Res., v. 38, i. 8, p. 1608-1614, 10.1016/j.asr.2006.02.012, 2006.

Deng, X. H., R.X. Tang, H. Matsumoto, J.S. Pickett, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, H. Kojima, W. Baumjohann, A. Coates, R. Nakamura, D.A. Gurnett and Z.X. Liu, Observations of electrostatic solitary waves associated with reconnection by Geotail and Cluster, Adv. Space Res.,  37, Pages 1373-1381

Draper, N.C., M. Lester, S.W.H. Cowley, J.-M. Bosqued, A. Grocott, J.A. Wild, Y. BOGDANOVA, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, and J.A. Davies, Cluster observations of a magnetic field cavity in the plasma sheet, Adv. Space Res., 38, p. 1738-1743, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.09.024, 2006.

Escoubet, C.P., J. M. Bosqued, J. Berchem, K. J. Trattner, M. G. G. T. Taylor, F. Pitout, H. Laakso, A. Masson, M. Dunlop, H. Reme, I. Dandouras, A. FAZAKERLEY, Temporal evolution of a staircase ion sugnature observed by Cluster in the mid-altitude polar cusp, GRL, 33, L07108, doi:10.1029/2005GL025598, 2006.

Hasegawa, H., B.U.O. Sonnerup, C.J. OWEN, B. Klecker, G. Paschmann, A. Balogh, H.  Reme, The structure of flux transfer events recovered from Cluster data, Ann. Geophys., 24 (2), 603-618, 2006.

HENDERSON, P.D., C.J. OWEN, I.V. ALEXEEV, J.A. Slavin, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, E. Lucek, and H. Reme, Cluster Observations of Flux Rope Structures in the Near-Tail, Ann. Geophys., 24, 651-666, 2006.

HENDERSON, P. D.; OWEN, C. J.; LAHIFF, A. D.; ALEXEEV, I. V.; FAZAKERLEY, A. N.; Lucek, E.; Rème, H., Cluster PEACE observations of electron pressure tensor divergence in the magnetotail, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 33, No. 22, L22106

Iles, R. H. A., N. P. Meredith, A. N. FAZAKERLEY, and R. B. Horne, Phase space density analysis of the outer radiation belt energetic electron dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A03204, doi:10.1029/2005JA011206., 2006.

Johansson, T., G. Marklund, T. Karlsson, S. Liléo, P. -A. Lindqvist, A. Marchaudon, H. Nilsson, A. FAZAKERLEY, On the profile of intense high-altitude auroral electric fields at magnetospheric boundaries, Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 24, pp 1713-1723, 3-7-2006

Keiling, A., Parks, G.K., Reme, H., Dandouras, I., Wilber, M., Kistler, L., OWEN, C., FAZAKERLEY, A.N., Lucek, E., Maksimovic, M., and Cornilleau-Wehrlin, N., Energy-dispersed ions in the plasma sheet boundary layer ans associated phenomena: Ion heating, electron acceleration, Alfven waves, broadband waves, perpendicular electric field spikes, and auroral emissions, 2685-2707. SRef-ID: 1432-0576/ag/2006-24-268, 2006.

Khotyaintsev, Y.V., A. Vaivads, A. Retino, M., Andre, C.J. OWEN and  H. Nilsson,  Formation of Inner Structure of a Reconnection Separatrix Region, Phys. Rev. Lett., 97, 205003, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.205003, 2006.

Lavraud B., M. F. Thomsen, B. Lefebvre, S. J. Schwartz, K. Seki, T. D. Phan, Y. L. Wang, A. FAZAKERLEY, H. Rème and A. Balogh, Evidence for newly closed magnetosheath field lines at the dayside magnetopause under northward IMF, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A05211, doi:10.1029/2005JA011266.

Lin, N., E.S. Lee, J. McFadden, G. Parks, M. Wilber, M. Maksimovic, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin, A. FAZAKERLEY, E. Lucek, H. Reme, O. Santolik, and Q.-G. Zong, VLF/ELF wave activity in the vicinity of the polar cusp: Cluster observations, Ann. Geophys., 24, 1993, 2006.

Maggiolo, R. , Sauvaud, J. A., Fontaine, D., Teste, A., Grigorenko, E., Balogh, A., FAZAKERLEY, A., Paschmann, G., Delcourt, D., and Rème, H, A multi-satellite study of accelerated ionospheric ion beams above the polar cap, Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 24, pp 1665-1684, 3-7-2006

Marchaudon, A., J.-C. Cerisier, J.-M. Bosqued, C. J. OWEN, A. N. FAZAKERLEY, A. D. LAHIFF, On the structure of field-aligned currents in the mid-altitude cusp, Ann. Geophys., 24, 3391-3401, 2006.

Masood, W., S. J. Schwartz, M. Maksimovic and A. N. FAZAKERLEY, Electron velocity distribution and lion roars in the magnetosheath, Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 24, pp 1725-1735, 3-7-2006.

Maynard, N. C. , Burke, W. J., Ebihara, Y., Ober, D. M., Wilson, G. R., Siebert, K. D., Winningham, J. D., Lanzerotti, L. J., Farrugia, C. J., Ejiri, M., Rème, H., Balogh, A., and FAZAKERLEY, A., Characteristics of merging at the magnetopause inferred from dayside 557.7-nm all-sky images: IMF drivers of poleward moving auroral forms, Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 24, pp 3071-3098

Nakamura R., W. Baumjohann, Y. Asano, A. Runov, A. Balogh, C. J. OWEN, A. N. FAZAKERLEY, M. Fujimoto, B. Klecker, H. Rème, Dynamics of thin current sheets associated with magnetotail reconnection, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A11206, doi:10.1029/2006JA011706, 2006.

Petkaki, P., Freeman, M.P., WALSH, A.P., Cluster observations of broadband electromagnetic waves in and around a reconnection region in the Earth's magnetotail current sheet, Geophys. Res. Lett., Vol. 33, No 16, L16105, 10.1029/2006GL027066.

Pitout, F., C.P. Escoubet, Y.V. BOGDANOVA, E. Georgescu, A. FAZAKERLEY, H. Reme, Response of the mid-altitude cusp to rapid rotation of the IMF, GRL, 33, L11107, doi:10.1029/2005GL025460, 2006.

Retino, A., A. Vaivads, M. M. Andre, F. Sahraoui, Y. Khotyaintsev, J. S. Pickett, M. B. Bavassano Cattaneo, M. F. Marcucci, M. Morooka, C. J. OWEN, S. Buchert, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin, The structure of the separatrix region close to a magnetic reconnection X-line: Cluster observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L06101, doi:10.1029/2005GL024650, 2006.

Sundkvist, D., A. Vaivads, Y.V. BOGDANOVA, V.V. Krasnoselskikh,  A.N. FAZAKERLEY, P.M.E. Decreau, Shell-instability generated waves by low energy electrons on converging magnetic field lines, GRL, 33, L03103, doi:10.1029/1005GL024388, 2006.

Taylor, M. G. G. T.; Reeves, G. D.; Friedel, R. H. W.; Thomsen, M. F.; Elphic, R. C.; Davies, J. A.; Dunlop, M. W.; Laakso, H.; Lavraud, B.; Baker, D. N.; Slavin, J. A.; Perry, C. H.; Escoubet, C. P.; Masson, A.; Opgenoorth, H. J.; Vallat, C.; Daly, P. W.; FAZAKERLEY, A. N.; Lucek, E. A., Cluster encounter with an energetic electron beam during a substorm, J. Geophys. Res., 111, A11203, doi:10.1029/2006JA011666, 2006.

Torkar, K., FAZAKERLEY, A., Steiger, W., Active Spacecraft Potential Control: Results From the Double Star Project, IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science, vol. 34, Issue 5, part 2, 2046-2052, 2006.

Wang, Y.L., Elphic, R.C., Lavraud, B., TAYLOR, M.G.G.T., Birn, J., Russell, C.T., RTaeder, J., Kawano, H., Zhang, X., Dependence of flux transfer events on solar wind conditions from 3 years of Cluster observations, JGR, 111, A4, CiteID A04224, 04/2006.

Non-Refereed

BOGDANOVA, Y.V., A. MARCHAUDON , C.J. OWEN, M. Dunlop, H. U. Frey, J.A. Wild, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, B. Klecker, J.A. Davies, S. E. Milan, Mechanism for the Formation of the High-Altitude Stagnant Cusp: Cluster and SuperDARN Observations, Proceedings of the Cluster and  Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

BOGDANOVA, Y.V.,
C.J. OWEN, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, B. Klecker and H. Reme, Cluster observations of the electron edge of the low-latitude boundary layer at mid-altitudes, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

De Keyser
, J., M. Roth, M. W. Dunlop, H. Reme, C. J. OWEN, and G. Paschmann, Solar wind pressure and the position of the magnetopause: a Cluster perspective, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Dunlop, M.W.,  M.G.G.T. Taylor, J.A. Davies, Z. Pu, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, C.J. OWEN, Y.V. BOGDANOVA, F. Pitout, H. Laakso, Q.-G. Zong, C. Shen, K. Nykyri, B. Lavraud, S.E. Milan, Z.-X. Liu, C.P. Escoubet, H. Reme, C.M. Carr, P. Cargill, T.D. Phan, M. Lockwood and B. Sonnerup, Comparative Cluster/Double Star observations of the high and low latutude dayside magnetopause, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Escoubet, C.P., Bosqued, J.M., Berchem, J., Taylor, M.G.G.T., Pitout, F., Laakso, H., Masson, A., Dunlop, M., Reme, H., Dandouras, I. & FAZAKERLEY, A., Staircase ion signature observed by Cluster in the mid-altitude polar cusp, in Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Fontaine, D., Teste, A., Maggiolo, R., Sauvaud, J.-A. & FAZAKERLEY, A.N., Polar cap particle acceleration: electron dynamics associated with ion flows, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA-598, 2006.

Harra, L., OWEN, C., Connecting the Sun to the Earth, The Observatory, Vol. 126, p. 78-82, 04/2006.

HENDERSON
, P.D., OWEN, C.J., ALEXEEV, I.V., Slavin, J., FAZAKERLEY, A.N., Lucek, E., Reme, H. Cluster observations of flux rope structures in the near-tail, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Horbury,T., P. Louarn, M. Fujimoto, W. Baumjohann, L. G. Blomberg, S. Barabash, P. Canu, K.-H. Glassmeier, H. Koskinen, R. Nakamura, C.J. OWEN, T. Pulkkinen, A. Roux, J.-A. Sauvaud, S. J. Schwartz, K. Svenes, A. Vaivads, Cross-Scale: A Multi-Spacecraft Mission to Study Cross-Scale Coupling in Space Plasmas, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

KHAN, H., FAZAKERLEY, A.N., WILSON, R.J., LAHIFF, A.D. & Taylor, M.G.G.T., Plasma Electron and Current Experiment (PEACE) data contributions to the Cluster Active Archive (CAA), Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

KHAN, H., Laakso, H., Dunlop, M., Taylor, M.G.G.T., Escoubet, C.P. & Opgenoorth, H., Inner mechanisms of flux transfer events observed by Cluster using high time resolution EFW data, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Lavraud, B., M. F. Thomsen, B. Lefebvre, E. Budnik, P. J. Cargill, A. Fedorov, M. G. G. T. Taylor, S. J. Schwartz, H. Rème, A. N. FAZAKERLEY, A. Balogh, Formation of the cusp and dayside boundary layers as a function of IMF orientation: Cluster results, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Lui, A.T.Y., Y. Zheng, A. Balogh, P. W. Daly, M. W. Dunlop, T. A. Fritz, G. Gustafsson, S. Livi, S. B. Mende, C. J. OWEN, R. F. Pfaff, H. Rème, Y. Zhang, and Q. Zong, Magnetotail substorm features from multi-point observations,
Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

MARCHAUDON, A., C. J. OWEN, J.-M. Bosqued, R. C. FEAR, A. N. FAZAKERLEY, M. W. Dunlop, A. D. LAHIFF, C. Carr, A. Balogh, P.-A. Lindqvist and H. Rème, Simultaneous Double Star and Cluster FTEs observations on the dawnside flank of the magnetosphere,
Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Pickett, J.S., Chen, L.-J., Gurnett, D.A., Swanner, J.M., Santolik, O., Decreau, P.M.E., Beghin, C., Sundkvist, D., Lefebvre, B., Goldstein, M.L., Lavraud, B., Lucek, E., Kessel, R., Lakhina, G.S., Singh, S.V., Reddy, R.V., Tsurutani, B.T., Reme, H. & FAZAKERLEY, A., Shedding new light on solitary waves observed in space, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Pu, Z.Y., Wang, J., Dunlop, M.W., Zhang, X.G., Wei, Y., Zhou, X.Z., Fu, S.Y., Xiao, C.J., Zong, Q.G., Liu, Z.X., Carr, C., Perry, C., Reme, H., Dandouras, I., FAZAKERLEY, A., Daly, P., Pitout, F., Davies, J., Shen, C., Laakso, H., Escoubet, P., OWEN, C.J., BOGDANOVA, Y. & Taylor, M.G.G.T., Cluster and TC-1 five point observation of an FTE on Jan 4 2005: a preliminary study, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Robert
, P., O. Lecontel, A. Roux, P. Canu, D. Fontaine, G. Chanteur, J.M. Bosqued, C. OWEN, A.N. FAZAKERLEY, and M.W. Dunlop, Study of a flux transfer event with Cluster spacecraft, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Roux, A., LeContel, O., Fontaine, D., Robert, D., Louarn, P. & FAZAKERLEY, A.N., Substorm theories and Cluster multi-point measurements, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Taylor, M.G.G.T., Lavraud, B., Thomsen, M.F., FAZAKERLEY, A.N., Dunlop, M.W., Davies, J.A., Escoubet, C.P., Laakso, H., KHAN, H., Masson, A., Opgenoorth, H.J., Friedel, R.H., Reme, H., Carr, C.M., Zhang, T.L. & Lucek, E.A., Multi-satellite observations of the near Earth plasma sheet and Flank magnetopause: response to the 5th December 2004 CME, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Wendel, D.E., P. H. Reiff, T. H. Han, M. L. Goldstein, E. Lucek, A. FAZAKERLEY, Cluster obseration of magnetic structure and electron flows at a northward interplanetary magentic field X-line, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Wild, J.A., S. E. Milan, J. A. Davies, S. W. H. Cowley, M. W. Dunlop, C. J. OWEN, J. M. Bosqued, M. Lester, A. Balogh, C. M. Carr, A. N. FAZAKERLEY, and H. Reme, Space and ground-based investigations of dayside reconnection: Cluster, Double Star and SuperDARN observations, Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Zong, Q.-G., H. Zhang, T. A. Fritz, S. Y. Fu, Z.Y. Pu, M. L. Goldstein, W. Keith, M. W.Dunlop, A. Korth, P. W. Daly, H. Reme, A. Balogh and A. N. FAZAKERLEY, The magnetospheric cusps: structure and dynamics,
Proceedings of the Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006.

Thesis





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5 March 2008
Sandrine Grimald

sg2@mssl.ucl.ac.uk