Plasma waves associated with the first AMPTE magnetotail barium release

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Jul 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..644g&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, July 1986, p. 644-647.

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Barium Ion Clouds, Earth Magnetosphere, Geomagnetic Tail, Plasma Waves, Space Plasmas, Cavities, Diamagnetism, Electric Fields, High Resolution, Plasma Density

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Plasma waves observed during the March 21, 1985, AMPTE magnetotail barium release are described. Electron plasma oscillations provided local measurements of the plasma density during both the expansion and decay phases. Immediately after the explosion, the electron density reached a peak of about 400,000/cu cm, and then started decreasing approximately as t to the -2.4 as the cloud expanded. About 6 minutes after the explosion, the electron density suddenly began to increase, reached a secondary peak of about 240/cu cm, and then slowly decayed down to the preevent level over a period of about 15 minutes. The density increase is believed to be caused by the collapse of the ion cloud into the diamagnetic cavity created by the initial expansion. The plasma wave intensities observed during the entire event were quite low. In the diamagnetic cavity, electrostatic emissions were observed near the barium ion plasma frequency, and in another band at lower frequencies. A broadband burst of electrostatic noise was also observed at the boundary of the diamagnetic cavity. Except for electron plasma oscillations, no significant wave activity was observed outside of the diamagnetic cavity.

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