Self-consistent superthermal electron effects on plasmaspheric refilling

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Apr 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997jgr...102.7523l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 102, Issue A4, p. 7523-7536

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Plasma Physics

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Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasmasphere, Space Plasma Physics: Transport Processes, Ionosphere: Particle Acceleration

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The effects of self-consistently including superthermal electrons in the definition of the ambipolar electric field are investigated for the case of plasmaspheric refilling after a geomagnetic storm. By using the total electron population in the hydrodynamic equations, a method for incorporating superthermal electron parameters in the electric field and electron temperature calculation is developed. Also, the ambipolar electric field is included in the kinetic equation for the superthermal electrons through a change of variables using the total energy and the first adiabatic invariant. Calculations based on these changes are performed by coupling time-dependent models of the thermal plasma and superthermal electrons. Results from this treatment of the electric field and the self-consistent development of the solution are discussed in detail. Specifically, there is a decreased thermal electron density in the plasmasphere during the first few minutes of refilling, a slightly accelerated proton shock front, and a decreased superthermal electron flux due to the deceleration by the electric field. The timescales of plasmaspheric refilling are discussed and determined to be somewhat shorter than previously calculated for the thermal plasma and superthermal electron population due to the effects of the field-aligned potential.

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