Propagating substorm injection fronts

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Geomagnetism, Magnetospheric Instability, Plasma Jets, Polar Substorms, Satellite Observation, Ats 6, Compression Waves, Electron Beams, Electron Precipitation, Geosynchronous Orbits, Ionospheric Sounding, Ionospheric Storms, Plasma Interactions, Plasma Layers, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Scatha Satellite, Secondary Injection, Spectral Energy Distribution

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It is argued that a series of two-satellite observations leads to a clarification of substorm plasma injection, in which boundary motion plays a major role. Emphasis is put on a type of event characterized by abrupt, dispersionless changes in electron intensity and a coincident perturbation that consists of both a field magnitude increase and a small rotation toward more dipolar orientation. Comparing plasma observations at two points, it is found that in active, preinjection conditions the two most important features of the plasma sheet are: (1) the low-energy convection boundary for near-zero energy particles, determined by the magnitude of the large-scale convection electric field; and (2) the precipitation-flow boundary layer between the hot plasma sheet and the atmospherically contaminated inner plasma sheet.

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