@PhDThesis{Silveira:2015:StFlTr,
               author = "Silveira, Marcos Vinicius Dias",
                title = "Study of flux transfer events observed at the Earth's magnetopause 
                         by THEMIS satellites",
               school = "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)",
                 year = "2015",
              address = "S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos Campos",
                month = "2015-03-03",
             keywords = "eventos de transfer{\^e}ncia de fluxo, reconex{\~a}o 
                         magn{\'e}tica, eventos transientes, magnetopausa, magnetosfera, 
                         flux transfer events, magnetic field reconnection, transient 
                         event, magnetopause, magnetospheric.",
             abstract = "AB8TRACT: Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process 
                         defined as topological restructuring of magnetic fields due to 
                         changes in the connectivity of magnetic field lines. Although 
                         other phenomena, e.g., particle acceleration and heating, can 
                         happen concurrently associated with reconnection, it is the most 
                         important process because it allows the fast magnetic energy 
                         release in large scales. Flux transfer events (FTEs) are 
                         considered as a result of transient magnetic reconnection and are 
                         often observed in the vicinity of the Earth\${'}\$s 
                         magnetopause. Thus, the study on magnetic reconnection is one of 
                         the important issues for the solar wind-magnetospheric cou-pling 
                         processo The space physics community has been interested in FTEs 
                         since their discovery. Recently, computational simulations, and 
                         multi-point observations have provided advances to FTE generation 
                         and structure formation studies. In this work data collected by 
                         the THEMIS mission was used to investigate flux transfer events 
                         under multi-points observations, which allows to investigate the 
                         structure itself, how it influences external plasma dynamics and 
                         analyze their dynamics under magnetic reconnection location. 
                         Although the techniques presented here had been employed in 
                         previous studies, we believe that the analysis of equatorial FTEs 
                         using multipoint observations and of its subsequent motion have a 
                         big importance to better understand magnetic reconnection at the 
                         Earth\${'}\$s magnetopause. It was created a list of flux 
                         transfer events observed by THEMIS probes at the dayside of the 
                         magnetopause and characterized these events according to the solar 
                         wind parameters and magnetic reconnection locations. Also are 
                         presented case studies of FTEs observed at multi-point 
                         observations including representative signatures observed in 
                         dataset in this thesis. RESUMO: Reconex{\~a}o magn{\'e}tica 
                         {\'e} um processo fundemantal de plasma definido como uma 
                         reestrutura{\c{c}}{\~a}o topol{\'o}gica do campo magn{\'e}tico 
                         devido {\`a} mudan{\c{c}}as na conectividade das linhas do campo 
                         magn{\'e}tico. Embora fen{\^o}menos como acelera{\c{c}}{\~a}o 
                         e aquecimento de part{\'{\i}}culas tamb{\'e}m ocorram no 
                         plasma, a reconex{\~a}o magn{\'e}tica {\'e} o mais importante 
                         pois permite a r{\'a}pida convers{\~a}o de energia 
                         magn{\'e}tica em grande escala. Eventos de transfer{\^e}ncia de 
                         fluxo s{\~a}o considerados o resultado da reconex{\~a}o 
                         magn{\'e}tica transiente e s{\~a}o frequentemente observados na 
                         vizinhan{\c{c}}a da magnetopausa terrestre. Portanto, estudos 
                         sobre a reconex{\~a}o magn{\'e}tica s{\~a}o t{\'o}picos muito 
                         importantes sobre o acoplamento do sistema vento 
                         solar-magnetosfera. A comunidade da geof{\'{\i}}sica espacial 
                         t{\^e}m interesse sobre os FTEs desde a sua descoberta. 
                         Recentemente, a simula{\c{c}}{\~a}o computacional e 
                         multi-observa{\c{c}}{\~a}o de sat{\'e}lites t{\^e}m permitido 
                         avan{\c{c}}os na pesquisa sobre modelos de gera{\c{c}}{\~a}o e 
                         estrutura dos FTEs. Neste trabalho, usou-se dados obtidos pelos 
                         sat{\'e}lites da miss{\~a}o THEMIS para investigar os FTEs sob 
                         aspectos da reconex{\~a}o magn{\'e}tica. Embora as t{\'e}cnicas 
                         apresentadas neste trabalho tenham sido empregadas em outros 
                         trabalhos, acredita-se que a an{\'a}lise de FTEs equatoriais 
                         atrav{\'e}s de multi-observa{\c{c}}{\~o}es e o seu movimento 
                         subsequente sejam muito importantes para o entendimento da 
                         reconex{\~a}o na magnetopausa terrestre. Portanto, foi analisada 
                         uma lista de FTEs no lado diurno da mangetopausa. Os eventos foram 
                         caracterizados de acordo com par{\^a}metros do vento solar e de 
                         reconex{\~a}o magn{\'e}tica.",
            committee = "Lago, Alisson Dal (presidente) and Koga, Daiki (orientador) and 
                         Alarcon, Walter Demetrio Gonzalez (orientador) and Alarcon, 
                         Al{\'{\i}}cia Luisa Cl{\'u}a de Gonzalez and Dallaqua, Renato 
                         S{\'e}rgio and Sim{\~o}es J{\'u}nior, Fernando Jaques Ruiz and 
                         Cardoso, Fl{\'a}via Reis",
           copyholder = "SID/SCD",
         englishtitle = "Estudo de eventos de transfer{\^e}ncia de fluxo observados na 
                         magnetopausa terrestre pelos sat{\'e}lites THEMIS",
             language = "en",
                pages = "111",
                  ibi = "8JMKD3MGP3W34P/3HTKPG5",
                  url = "http://urlib.net/ibi/8JMKD3MGP3W34P/3HTKPG5",
           targetfile = "publicacao.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "20 abr. 2024"
}