Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997adspr..20..801s&link_type=abstract
Advances in Space Research, Volume 20, Issue 4-5, p. 801-807.
Physics
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Scientific paper
On August 3, 1995, two satellites of the INTERBALL mission were launched into a highly elliptical dawnside orbit with an apogee near 200 000 km and a perigee of 800 km. The distance separating the satellites varies from one to several thousand km. Both satellites carry sets of Faraday cups which cover a spatial angle approaching nearly 4pi. The cups provide high resolution data (up to 16 Hz for the main satellite and 10 Hz for the subsatellite) which we supplement with magnetic field measurements and observations of the electron/ion energy and angular distributions. The configuration of both satellites allows us to determine small-scale variations of the magnetopause shape and position and to estimate the velocity of the magnetopause motion. A preliminary analysis of the data suggests that the nature of magnetopause motion depends significantly on the geomagnetic latitude. Waxy motion of the magnetopause boundaries seems to be preferred at the low-latitude boundary layer near the equatorial plane whereas a radial expansion/contraction seems to be most common at the high latitude plasma mantle.
Fedorov Arkady
Nemecek Zdenek
Prech Lubomír
Romanov Š .
Safrankova Jana
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