An event of distinct ion polar rain

Details An event of distinct ion polar rain An event of distinct ion polar rain

Sep 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988georl..15.1165n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 15, Sept. 1988, p. 1165-1168.

Physics

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Ion Motion, Polar Meteorology, Rain, Vertical Distribution, Dmsp Satellites, Ion Density (Concentration), Maxwell-Boltzmann Density Function, Satellite Observation

Scientific paper

An event of ions at magnetosheath energy levels precipitating in the manner characteristic of polar rain at flux levels of less than about 10 to the 9th eV/sq cm-s-sr is reported. The polar rain is reasonably fit using a Maxwellian distribution with a temperature of 230 eV and a density of 0.02/cu m. It was found that the strong dayside-nightside gradient expected and observed in the electron polar rain also occurred in the ion polar rain, and that the sign of the dawn-dusk gradient was appropriate for the IMF By component at the time.

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