Energetic atomic and molecular ions of ionospheric origin observed in distant magnetotail flow-reversal events

Details Energetic atomic and molecular ions of ionospheric origin observed in distant magnetotail flow-reversal events Energetic atomic and molecular ions of ionospheric origin observed in distant magnetotail flow-reversal events

Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994georl..21.3023c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 21, no. 25, p. 3023-3026

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Auroral Zones, Earth Ionosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Molecular Ions, Nitrogen Ions, Nitrogen Oxides, Oxygen Ions, Satellite Observation, Solar Wind, Angular Distribution, Geomagnetism, Geophysical Satellites, Magnetic Signatures, Satellite-Borne Instruments

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Energetic atomic (O(+1) and N(+1)) and molecular (O2(+1), NO(+1), and N2(+1)) ions of ionospheric origin were observed in Earth's magnetotail at X approximately -146 R(sub E) during two plasma sheet sunward/tailward flow-reversal events measured by instruments on the GEOTAIL spacecraft. These events were associated with concurrent ground-measured geomagnetic disturbance intensification at auroral-and mid-latitudes (Kp = 7(-)). Energetic ions in the sunward-component and tailward flows were from both the solar wind and ionosphere. Plasma and energetic ions participated in the flows. During tailward flow, ionospheric origin ion abundance ratios at approximately 200-900 km/s in the rest frame were N(+1)/O(+1) = approximately 25-30% and ((O2(+1), NO(+1), and N2(+1))/O(+1) = approximately 1-2%. We argue that tailward flow most likely initiated approximately 80-100 R(sub E) tailward of Earth and molecular ions were in the plasma sheet prior to geomagnetic intensification onset.

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