Magnetospheric reconnection, substorms, and energetic particle acceleration

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Nov 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979aipc...56..169c&link_type=abstract

In: Particle acceleration mechanisms in astrophysics; Proceedings of the Workshop, La Jolla, Calif., January 3-5, 1979. (A80-532

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Atmospheric Models, Earth Magnetosphere, Energetic Particles, Magnetic Storms, Particle Acceleration, Plasma Interactions, Atmospheric Turbulence, Flow Distribution, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow

Scientific paper

The steady state reconnection model of the terrestrial magnetosphere predicts a maximum potential drop of about 100 kV across the tail. During substorms particles are accelerated to energies above 1 MeV. At substorm onset, large inductive emfs may be generated by explosive tearing mode reconnection which is driven nonlinearly unstable by the solar wind and convection stresses on the tail plasma sheet. In the inner magnetosphere, energetic particles are also produced by stochastic wave turbulent acceleration and by convection driven inward radial diffusion.

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