Influence of the magnetosheath on solar proton penetration into the magnetosphere

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Dec 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977p%26ss...25.1111d&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, vol. 25, Dec. 1977, p. 1111-1117.

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Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetosheath, Proton Precipitation, Solar Protons, Heos Satellites, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetopause, Penetration

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The observation of solar protons (1-9 MeV) aboard HEOS-2 in the high-latitude magnetotail and magnetosheath on 9 June 1972, and their comparison with simultaneous measurements on Explorers 41 and 43, both in interplanetary space, indicate the existence of a distinct region of the inner magnetosheath (about 3 earth radii thick) near the high-latitude magnetopause in which the solar particle flow is almost reversed with respect to the flow observed in interplanetary space. The region can also be seen by comparing magnetic field measurements on the three spacecraft. The observations in the outer layer of the magnetotail show solar protons predominantly entering the magnetosphere somewhere near the earth, perhaps the cusp region.

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