Acceleration of auroral electrons in parallel electric fields

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Apr 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976jgr....81.1673k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 81, Apr. 1, 1976, p. 1673-1682. USAF-supported research

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Auroral Zones, Electron Density (Concentration), Geoelectricity, Particle Acceleration, Electric Fields, Electric Potential, Electron Scattering, Geomagnetism, Lines Of Force, Magnetosheath, Rocket Sounding, Steady State

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Rocket observations of auroral electrons are compared with the predictions of a number of theoretical acceleration mechanisms that involve an electric field parallel to the earth's magnetic field. The theoretical models are discussed in terms of required plasma sources, the location of the acceleration region, and properties of necessary wave-particle scattering mechanisms. We have been unable to find any steady state scatter-free electric field configuration that predicts electron flux distributions in agreement with the observations. The addition of a fluctuating electric field or wave-particle scattering several thousand kilometers above the rocket can modify the theoretical flux distributions so that they agree with measurements. The presence of very narrow energy peaks in the flux contours implies a characteristic temperature of several tens of electron volts or less for the source of field-aligned auroral electrons and a temperature of several hundred electron volts or less for the relatively isotropic 'monoenergetic' auroral electrons. The temperature of the field-aligned electrons is more representative of the magnetosheath or possibly the ionosphere as a source region than of the plasma sheet.

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