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Jul 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jgr....90.6354g&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 90, July 1, 1985, p. 6354-6360. DOE-sponsored research.
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Geomagnetic Tail, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Plasma Density, Space Plasmas, Current Sheets, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Measurement, Plasma Diagnostics
Scientific paper
ISEE 3 plasma measurements made in the distant geomagnetic tail during rapid traversals of the current sheet from one lobe to the other show that the lobe densities on opposite sides of the current sheet often differ by a factor of approximately 3-10 or more. On the dawnside of the tail the north lobe plasma has the higher density when the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) has a +By component, and the south lobe plasma has the higher density when the IMF has a -By component. The sense of this asymmetry is reversed on the dusk-side of the tail. Such IMF-controlled asymmetries in lobe plasma density are consistent with earlier observations made much closer to earth and can be interpreted most simply as a consequence of an 'open' geomagnetic tail.
Baker Daniel N.
Bame J. Jr. S.
Feldman William C.
Gosling Jack T.
Smith Edward. J.
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