The role of adiabatic convection on the evolution of the particle distribution function and on ion cyclotron wave growth in the earth's magnetosphere

Details The role of adiabatic convection on the evolution of the particle distribution function and on ion cyclotron wave growth in the earth's magnetosphere The role of adiabatic convection on the evolution of the particle distribution function and on ion cyclotron wave growth in the earth's magnetosphere

Feb 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979phdt........22k&link_type=abstract

Ph.D. Thesis California Univ., Los Angeles.

Physics

Adiabatic Flow, Convection, Crossed Fields, Cyclotrons, Distribution Functions, Earth Magnetosphere, Ionic Waves, Electric Fields, Liouville Theorem, Magnetic Flux, Morphology, Particle Energy, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Spatial Distribution

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The morphology and consequences of the cross magnetospheric electric field are studied. The convection electric field is shown empirically to be partially shielded from the inner magnetosphere. The combination of particle drifts produced by the convection and corotation electric fields and magnetic forces results in steady state spatial boundaries which limit the access of particles to certain regions of space. The earth's magnetic field is assumed to be dipolar, and approximations to the boundaries as functions of particle first and second invariant or particle energy and pitch angle are derived. The formulae derived are applied to explain one type of injection event observed aboard synchronous spacecraft. A model which includes realistic initial conditions and time dependent convection is used to explain typical substorm and non substorm associated electron injection events.

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