Disruption of parallel current at substorm breakup

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Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000georl..27.4041p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 24, p. 4041-4044

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Plasma Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena, Space Plasma Physics: Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions

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We study the development of substorm breakups characterized by dispersionless injections of energetic particles at the geostationary orbit. The corresponding magnetic signature is a fast change from tail-like to dipole-like configuration with transient superimposed low frequency oscillations (T~1mn). We show that intense waves (δB~1nT) with shorter periods (1 s) systematically develop at breakup, and that their intensification is strongly related to the depolarization and to the fast increase of energetic electrons. These ``higher frequency'' (F~1Hz) waves appear as short lasting bursts, strongly confined across the magnetic field. Hence they look like kinetic Alfvén waves and are likely to have finite parallel electric fields, thereby resonating with electrons. We compute the diffusion coefficient and show that electrons are heated along the parallel direction and can gain up to 5 keV in a few tens of seconds. This fast parallel diffusion of electrons leads to cancellation of the parallel current and therefore to a complete modification of the current system.

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