Nonadiabatic heating of the central plasma sheet at substorm onset

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Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....97.1481h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, Feb. 1, 1992, p. 1481-1495.

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Magnetoplasmadynamics, Plasma Heating, Polar Substorms, Space Plasmas, Current Sheets, International Sun Earth Explorers, Nonadiabatic Conditions

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Heating events in the plasma sheet boundary layer and central plasma sheet are found to occur at the onset of expansive phase activity. The main effect is a dramatic increase in plasma temperature, coincident with a partial dipolarization of the magnetic field. Fluxes of energetic particles increase without dispersion during these events which occur at all radial distances up to 23 RE, the apogee of the ISEE spacecraft. A major difference between these heating events and those observed at geosynchronous distances lies in the heating mechanism which is nonadiabatic beyond 10 RE but may be adiabatic closer to earth. The energy required to account for the increase in plasma thermal energy is comparable with that required for Joule heating of the ionosphere. The plasma sheet must be considered as a major sink in the energy balance of a substorm. Lobe magnetic pressures during these events are estimated. Change in lobe pressure are generally not correlated with onsets or intensifications of expansive phase activity.

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