Sounding rocket observations of field-aligned current sheets

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Jun 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980esasp.152..279w&link_type=abstract

In ESA European Rocket and Balloon Programs and Related Res. (date p 279-284 (SEE N81-10914 01-99)

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Current Sheets, Electric Fields, Field Aligned Currents, Magnetospheric Electron Density, Sounding Rockets, Auroral Zones, Electron Energy, Electron Precipitation, High Temperature Plasmas

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A high-altitude sounding rocket payload launched into an auroral break-up event encountered at least two well developed current sheets at the northern boundary of the auroral activity region. In the upward directed current regime, the charge carriers were predominantly precipitating energetic electrons embedded in a low-density, high-temperature magnetospheric plasma. The downward directed currents, on the other hand, were accompanied by a high-density, low-temperature plasma. Signatures of the current sheets could be identified in the perpendicular electric field as shock-like intensity and direction variations as well as in spectral modifications of high-energy electron and proton fluxes.

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