Impulsive ion acceleration in earth's outer magnetosphere
Description:
Considerable observational evidence is found that ions are accelerated to high energies in the outer magnetosphere during geomagnetic disturbances. The acceleration often appears to be quite impulsive causing temporally brief (10's of seconds), very intense bursts of ions in the distant plasma sheet as well as in the near-tail region. These ion bursts extend in energy from 10's of keV to over 1 MeV and are closely associated with substorm expansive phase onsets. Although the very energetic ions…
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Date:
January 1, 1985
Creator:
Baker, D.N. & Belian, R.D.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department