Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979jgr....84...41b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 84, Jan. 1, 1979, p. 41-45.
Physics
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Anisotropic Media, Earth Magnetosphere, Ion Motion, Larmor Precession, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Vlasov Equations, Magnetic Fields, Parallel Flow, Particle Flux Density, Rotating Plasmas
Scientific paper
Assuming time stationarity of the one-particle distribution function f on the scale of the bounce motion of particles in a magnetic field, the paper expands the Vlasov equation through O(epsilon) in the adiabatic parameter epsilon, which is the ratio of particle gyroradius to scale length of the magnetic field. Since f is directly proportional to particle flux differential in kinetic energy and solid angle, f is in principle measurable in space experiments, and the present analysis is tailored to be explicitly applicable to space problems. It is shown that the usual expression for the electric field which produces plasma corotation in an axisymmetric system such as a dipole also holds for any nonaxisymmetric but rigidly rotating magnetic field pattern, provided the observed magnetic field is used in place of the dipole field. The analysis is applied to the electric field in a rigidly corotating magnetosphere.
Birmingham Thomas J.
Northrop Theodore G.
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