The AMPTE lithium releases in the solar wind - A possible trigger for geomagnetic pulsations

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Dec 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990georl..17.2301l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 17, Dec. 1990, p. 2301-2304. Research supported by BMFT and NASA.

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Ampte (Satellites), Geomagnetic Pulsations, Ion Injection, Lithium, Solar Wind, Ionospheric Disturbances, Magnetic Measurement, Magnetometers, Magnetospheres

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Shortly after the AMPTE/IRM satellite had released Lithium ions into the solar wind, magnetometers on the ground and in the frontside magnetosphere observed deflections of a type similar to those associated with solar wind pressure pulses. Since the natural solar wind was very stable during this event and did not exhibit pressure changes, the magnetic deflections have likely been caused by the artificially injected Lithium cloud when it hit the magnetosphere. Order of magnitude estimates show that 300 g of Lithium vapor released in the solar wind are indeed able to produce a 300 nT magnetic deflection on the ground under favorable conditions.

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