Ion acceleration at the equatorward edge of the cusp - Low altitude observations of patchy merging

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Oct 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991georl..18.1829n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 18, Oct. 1991, p. 1829-1832.

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59

Cusps, Flow Velocity, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Particle Acceleration, Plasma Acceleration, Electrostatic Probes, Low Altitude, Spectrograms, Velocity Distribution

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This paper reports the observation of spatially discrete patches of precipitating accelerated ions at the equatorward edge of the cusp. These regions of accelerated bulk flow velocity, which occur at or near the transition between boundary layer and cusp proper, are spatially distinct from the overall energy-latitude dispersion in the main cusp and are best fitted by Maxwellian distributions with convection velocities of 450-640 km/sec; such velocities are 200-300 km/sec faster than in the main cusp ion distribution. The acceleration cannot be attributed to electrostatic potentials, for the electron distributions in the patchy ion regions are also accelerated. Based on an initial survey of 13 such events, occurrence of distinctly separate accelerated ion patches appears to be primarily or exclusively a southward B(z) phenomenon.

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