Parallel currents in the magnetotail and their connection to aurora

• Main Authors: Wanzambi, Ellinor, Gustafsson, Maja
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för fysik och astronomi 2018
• Subjects: Fusion; Plasma and Space Physics; plasma och rymdfysik; Antarctic; Lagrange; Svalbard; Antarc*; aurora australis
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355621

We present an analysis from MMS satellites where we detected the strongest parallel currents from their data during the months May till November 2017. The strongest parallel current in July happened 2017-07-16 at 6 o’clock. At this event we found a change in the magnetic flow density at the location...