Note on the electric splitting of drift shells

Details Note on the electric splitting of drift shells Note on the electric splitting of drift shells

Sep 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975jgr....80.3525k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 80, Sept. 1, 1975, p. 3525-3527.

Physics

Drift Rate, Earth Magnetosphere, Electric Fields, Magnetic Dipoles, Magnetically Trapped Particles, Particle Trajectories, Asymmetry, Earth Orbits, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Flux, Particle Energy, Pitch (Inclination), Relativistic Theory, Splitting

Scientific paper

A nonrelativistic analysis is presented for the deviation of a particle from its dipole magnetic drift shell in the presence of an electric field. An alternative definition of weak shell splitting is introduced in which the corotation drift velocity need not be small with respect to the azimuthal magnetic drift velocity. Approximate explicit solutions are obtained for the asymmetry of drift shells in the strong shell splitting case, i.e., for the case where the cross-magnetosphere potential drop is not small compared to particle kinetic energy. Upper limits to drift shell asymmetry are obtained from considerations of the Alfven layer.

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