Upper limit on the electric field along a magnetic O line

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Sep 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85.4616v&link_type=abstract

(International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, Symposium on International Magnetospheric Study Results, 1st, La Trobe

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Electric Fields, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Field Configurations, Neutral Sheets, Particle Acceleration, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Particle Energy, Particle Motion, Plasma Layers

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The electric field along a magnetic neutral line of the O type is demonstrated to be limited by a severe upper bound: the line integral of the electric field along the entire O line cannot appreciably exceed the Alfven potential, which corresponds to twice the magnetic energy per particle. The same upper limit, within a numerical factor of order unity, to the line integral of the electric field was calculated, implying that the maximum energy gained by a particle drifting along the O line is not significantly greater than the typical energy of a plasma sheet particle. Therefore simple acceleration by electric fields along magnetic O lines cannot account for the energetic component of the charged particle population in the magnetotail.

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