Observation of an ionospheric acceleration mechanism producing energetic /keV/ ions primarily normal to the geomagnetic field direction

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Geomagnetism, Ion Accelerators, Ionospheric Ion Density, Magnetic Effects, Oxygen Ions, Satellite Observation, Angular Distribution, Ionospheric Sounding, Mass Spectroscopy, Pitch (Inclination), Polar Regions

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O(+) ions with energies of approximately 1 keV have been observed flowing upward out of the ionosphere with a pitch-angle distribution having a minimum along the magnetic-field direction and maxima in about the 130-140-deg range. The measurements were obtained with an energetic-ion mass-spectrometer experiment on the satellite 1976-65B at an altitude of about 7600 km in the northern dayside polar cusp. The data are interpreted as resulting from a mechanism which accelerates ambient ionospheric ions in a direction perpendicular to the geomagnetic field.

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