Three Dimensional Energetic Electron Distributions Observed During Substorms: Using a New Mode the L3DD Data of the Cluster RAPID Experiment

Details Three Dimensional Energetic Electron Distributions Observed During Substorms: Using a New Mode the L3DD Data of the Cluster RAPID Experiment Three Dimensional Energetic Electron Distributions Observed During Substorms: Using a New Mode the L3DD Data of the Cluster RAPID Experiment

Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsm11a1169w&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SM11A-1169

Physics

2700 Magnetospheric Physics, 2708 Current Systems (2409), 2720 Energetic Particles, Trapped, 2731 Magnetosphere: Outer, 2740 Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics

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As of May 13, 2004, new software patches had been uploaded to the four RAPID (Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors) instruments having an electron energy range of 20-400 kev to produce the L3DD data. The L3DD product allows the data from energy channel 1 and channel 3 (counting 1-8) to be fully resolved three dimensionally for all four CLUSTER satellites. Here we report our examination of the 3-D pitch angle distributions (PAD) of energetic electrons as the CLUSTER satellites cross the earth neutral sheet near their apogee in the nightside magnetosphere during the tail season (July, August, September, October of year 2004) . We identify several energetic electron ejections associated with substorm events and analyze their PAD evolution in the two available energy channels for all four satellites. The PAD evolution and its energy dependent or independent dispersion provide us with an understanding of the particle motion and insights into acceleration processes in the neutral sheet where the topology of the magnetic field is changing dynamically. Energy spectra at different pitch angle are studied in detail as well. Finally we will compare those events with the previous Nov.13, 2003 event observed by the CLUSTER SC2 satellite and produce a timeline for each event.

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