Acceleration/heating processes on auroral field lines as observed by the Viking spacecraft

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Auroras, High Temperature Plasmas, Lines Of Force, Plasma Acceleration, Plasma Heating, Space Plasmas, Angular Distribution, Electric Fields, Plasma Diagnostics, Satellite Sounding, Swedish Space Program

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High resolution data from the hot plasma experiment on board the Swedish Viking satellite are presented. Characteristics of the particle populations contain information about local and remote acceleration and heating processes. The energy and especially the angular distributions obtained in the auroral region show considerably more structure than anticipated. Quasi-static electric field acceleration explains many of the features observed, but other large-scale and small-scale processes such as various wave particle interaction mechanisms are needed to more completely understand the particle observations.

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