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Dec 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....9719213f&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A12, p. 19,213-19,219.
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Coulomb Collisions, Electron Scattering, Heat Flux, Solar Electrons, Solar Wind, Electron Energy, Energy Dissipation, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Plasma Density, Velocity Distribution
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Data on solar wind electrons at the ISEE 3 spacecraft located 0.01 AU upstream from the earth (McComas et al., 1989) showed periods of time when the flux of antisunward suprathermal electrons would decrease suddenly, leading to heat flux dropouts (HFDs). This paper examines data from ISEE 1 at the 1.5 x 10 exp 6 km downstream location to determine whether HFDs identified at ISEE 3 by McComas et al. can be detected at this location and whether the ISEE 1 observations can provide information to one or the other possible interpretations of HFDs: that HFDs are due to enhanced Coulomb scattering, or to disconnection from the sun of the magnetic flux tube. The results of the examination identified the presence of HFD events in the ISEE 1 data, and the findings indicate that Coulomb scattering plays a substantial role in at least some HFD events.
Fitzenreiter Richard J.
Ogilvie Keith. W.
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