Ion precipitation from the inner plasma sheet due to stochastic diffusion

Details Ion precipitation from the inner plasma sheet due to stochastic diffusion Ion precipitation from the inner plasma sheet due to stochastic diffusion

Apr 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....95.3871z&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, April 1, 1990, p. 3871-3882.

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Geomagnetic Tail, Particle Precipitation, Plasma Diffusion, Plasma Layers, Atmospheric Models, Auroral Zones, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Field Inversions, Night Sky, Stochastic Processes

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Plasma sheet ions do not conserve their first adiabatic invariant when the magnetic field is appreciably tail-like. They do conserve a different adiabatic invariant but only to linear, rather than exponential, accuracy in the appropriate small parameter. Thus significant stochastic diffusion can occur for particles crossing the separatrix dividing the segments of orbits on which the particles cross and do not cross the tail midplane. Such ions can escape the plasma sheet and precipitate into the atmosphere. Stochastic scattering is strongest from those field lines where the ion's Larmor period in the normal component of the neutral sheet magnetic field approximately equals its bounce period. By comparing the rates of stochastic ion loss and convection in the tail, it is possible to estimate the location and thickness of the inner edge of the ion plasma sheet created by stochastic ion loss. Ions of different masses precipitate into the atmosphere at slightly different locations. Since wave particle interactions are not needed, this precipitation will always occur and should be particularly evident during quiet geomagnetic conditions, when it is less likely to be masked by other precipitation mechanisms.

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