Projektnummer

0059425

Zusammenfassung

Space plasmas present intriguing puzzles to the scientific community. Impulsive energy release events are observed and challenge our understanding on how energy is transformed from one form to another. The best possibility to measure the physical characteristics of these events are provided by the analysis of observations by spacecraft in the Earth's magnetosphere. A key region of Earth's magnetosphere is the current sheet (CS) in the magnetotail. There, energy supplied by the solar wind is accumulated and then explosively released. This results in pronounced plasma heating and acceler...