Detailed examination of a plasmoid in the distant magnetotail with ISEE 3

Details Detailed examination of a plasmoid in the distant magnetotail with ISEE 3 Detailed examination of a plasmoid in the distant magnetotail with ISEE 3

Oct 1984

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Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 11, Oct. 1984, p. 1046-1049. Research sponsored by the U.S. Department of En

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Geomagnetic Tail, Plasma Diagnostics, Satellite Sounding, Space Plasmas, Electron Plasma, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Magnetic Signatures, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetosheath, Time Response

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Details of an investigation of a lone plasmoid encountered by the ISEE-3 spacecraft in February 1983 are reported. ISEE-3 was then at 217 earth radii distance, in the magnetosheath, and had entered the magnetotail. Intense energetic particle, plasma and magnetic field fluctuations were detected, indicating a large electron flux moving tailward, a suprathermal proton flux, a jump in electron temperature, and inverse signatures of an increasing magnetic field. Closed magnetic field lines were also detected as were IMF field lines around the plasmoid and open field lines connecting the earth with space. The hot particles in the plasmoid are concluded to have been magnetically confined in a boundary one earth radius thick. An earthward directed beam was also detected and was found to balance the tailward flux. The origin and characteristics of the beam were not discerned.

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