The magnetospheric cusps
revealed: Results from the CLUSTER mission
Friday October 8, 2004, 10:30 - 15:30
Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London
The
magnetospheric cusps play a key role in
regulating the transfer of solar wind energy to the ionosphere and
inner
magnetosphere. Results from the multi-spacecraft CLUSTER mission reveal
them to
be regions of great complexity whose structure is determined by both
global
magnetospheric dynamics and local small-scale plasma processes. This
meeting
took stock of what has been learned after three years of the
CLUSTER
mission.
Programme
10:00: Registration and Coffee
Morning Session (Chairman: Peter
Cargill)
10:30: Philippe Escoubet (ESA): Introduction to Cluster in the
cusps:
10:55: Benoit Lavraud (LANL): Overall topology of the high-altitude cusp
11:25: Katariina Nykyri (ICL): Magnetic field turbulence in the cusp.
11:40: Malcolm Dunlop (RAL): Dynamics of cusp boundaries
12:10 Robert Fear (MSSL): Flux Transfer Events in the
Cusp/Magnetosphere Boundary Layer
12:25: Nanan Balan (Sheffield): Cluster Cusp Crossings During
Geomagnetic Storms
12:40: Mike Hapgood (RAL): Cluster orbit evolution and cusp studies
12:50: Lunch break.
Afternoon Session (Chairman: Chris
Owen)
13:50: Yulia Bogdanova (MSSL): Structure of the mid-altitude cusp
14:20: Jim Wild (Leicester): Connection between high-altitude and
ground-based measurements of the cusp
14:50: Aurélie Marchaudon et al (MSSL): Ionospheric
signatures of plasma injections in the cusp triggered by solar wind
pressure pulses
15:05: Peter Cargill (ICL): Future prospects for cusp studies and
group discussion
15:30: Tea
16:00: Joint A&G meeting including overview talk by Benoit Lavraud.
Meeting Report
by
Benoit Lavraud (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) and Peter J Cargill (Imperial College, London)
published in
Astronomy & Geophysics 46, 1.32-1.35, (February 2005)
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