On the evolution of ion conics along the field line from EXOS D observations

Details On the evolution of ion conics along the field line from EXOS D observations On the evolution of ion conics along the field line from EXOS D observations

Jul 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9811127m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A7, p. 11,127-11,134.

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Exos-D Satellite, Geomagnetism, Ionospheric Ion Density, Lines Of Force, Conics, Ion Distribution, Particle Acceleration

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The altitude dependence of ion conics is investigated by using EXOS D observations on the dayside below 10,000 km altitude. The cone angle of ion conics tends to decrease with increasing altitude, but not so much as expected from a simple adiabatic model. The conic temperature, on the other hand, tends to increase with increasing altitude. The occurrence frequency of ion conics increases with altitude below 6000 km but is approximately constant above 6000 km. The appearance of newly born conics and the extinction of old conics in the statistics at any altitude could make some contribution, if the appearance and the extinction are large enough, to the observation results: less significant change in cone angle and increasing temperature with altitude, but this effect alone hardly provides a full explanation for the differences in the conic characteristics between the observations and the simple adiabatic model. The results rather seem to reflect the real evolution of an ion conic as ions flow up along the field line, suggesting nonconservation of the adiabatic invariant and the height-integrated transverse acceleration of ion conics over a wide range of altitude.

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