Magnetospherically trapped ions as a source of magnetosheath energetic ions

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Feb 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86..723s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, Feb. 1, 1981, p. 723-732.

Physics

52

Energetic Particles, Ion Sources, Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, Trapped Particles, Atmospheric Models, Coordinate Transformations, Distribution Functions, Orbit Calculation, Particle Trajectories, Protons

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It has been suggested that energetic ions observed in the magnetosheath may be due to the direct leakage of trapped magnetospheric ions. To test this hypothesis, three-dimensional ion spectra from the energetic particle experiment on ISEE 1 for a magnetopause crossing on Nov. 10, 1977 are utilized to construct three-dimensional distribution functions in the magnetosphere and in the sheath. Using the observed magnetic field, a simple one-dimensional model of the magnetopause is developed. Ions are then followed in the model, starting in the magnetosphere, through the magnetopause and ending up in the sheath. Using Liouville's Theorem a model sheath distribution function is then built up by following the magnetospheric distribution function through the model fields. The model distribution is then compared with the observed sheath distribution. For this case it is found that the main features of the observed ions in the sheath are consistent with direct leakage and with no energization or de-energization processes, and an inward-pointing normal component is required. The energetic particles mapped in this case apparently follow a flux tube which does not penetrate the magnetopause where local tangential electric fields have been reported.

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