Evidence for particle acceleration during magnetospheric substorms

Details Evidence for particle acceleration during magnetospheric substorms Evidence for particle acceleration during magnetospheric substorms

Publishing date

Feb 1994

URL

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apjs...90..531l&link_type=abstract

Journals

Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 90, no. 2, p. 531-539

Science

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field

Astrophysics

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Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Storms, Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, Particle Acceleration, Solar Wind, Auroral Electrojets, Energy Dissipation, Field Aligned Currents, Solar Planetary Interactions

Type

Scientific paper

Abstract

Magnetospheric substorms represent the episodic dissipation of energy stored in the geomagnetic tail that was previously extracted from the solar wind. This energy release produces activity throughout the entire magnetosphere-ionosphere system, and it results in a wide variety of phenomena such as auroral intensifications and the generation of new current systems. All of these phenomena involve the acceleration of particles, sometimes up to several MeV. We present a brief overview of substorm phenomenology. We then review some of the evidence for particle acceleration in Earth's magnetosphere during substorms. Such in-situ observations in this most accessible of all cosmic plasma domains may hold important clues to understanding acceleration processes in more distant astrophysical systems.

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