Observations of the Earth's Plasma Sheet at Geosynchronous Orbit

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Jul 1996

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Workshop on the Earth's trapped particle environment. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 383, pp. 25-32 (1996).

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Energetic Trapped Particles

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Geosynchronous orbit typically lies within the near-Earth portion of the plasma sheet and its dayside extension. Los Alamos magnetospheric plasma analyzers (MPA) on three geosynchronous satellites routinely observe the plasma-sheet ion and electron distributions over the energy range of ~1 eV to ~40 keV. Based on these observations, we describe the typical appearance of the plasma sheet at synchronous altitude under both fairly steady and fairly active conditions. We also present a statistical analysis of the bulk properties (density temperature, and anisotropy) of the plasma sheet ion and electron populations, and we illustrate the dependence of these average properties on local time.

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