Thin sheets of energetic electrons upstream from the earth's bow shock

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May 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979georl...6..401a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 6, May 1979, p. 401-404.

Physics

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Bow Waves, Energetic Particles, High Energy Electrons, Shock Waves, Electron Flux Density, Graphs (Charts), Interplanetary Magnetic Fields

Scientific paper

ISEE spacecraft observations show that energetic (not less than 16 keV) electrons are injected into the region upstream from the earth's bow shock in a thin sheet which lies just behind the sheet of interplanetary magnetic field lines that are tangent to the shock surface. Lower energy electrons leave the shock over a much broader region. Although the energetic electron intensity varies, the sheet is nearly always present and may be a quasi-steady state feature of the bow shock. The electron velocity distribution in the thin sheet is strongly peaked and is responsible for excitation of electron plasma waves.

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