Plasma-sheet ions at lunar distance preceding substorm onset

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Nov 1971

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1971p%26ss...19.1413g&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, Volume 19, Issue 11, p. 1413-1418.

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During the partial lunar eclipse of August 17, 1970, four intense, transient bursts of kV-energy positive ions were detected at the lunar surface by the Rice University ALSEP Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment. The eclipse happened to occur during a main-phase geomagnetic storm while the Moon was within a few Earth radii of the calculated position of the neutral sheet. The two most intense ion bursts were each followed roughly 1/2hr later by the sudden onset of a several thousand gamma polar magnetic substorm at the Earth's surface. Two smaller ion enhancements were also followed by smaller magnetic disturbances. This observation is interpreted in terms of a downstream escape of plasma-sheet particles associated with the substorm growth phase.

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