Two-point measurement of hot plasma structures in the magnetotail lobes

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Sep 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997adspr..20..993s&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 20, Issue 4-5, p. 993-997.

Physics

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The magnetotail lobes contain mainly a plasma of low density and energy. However, structures consisting of energetic plasma particles have been also previously reported in this region. The present contribution is devoted to a two-point analysis of such structures. We use the data collected by the recently launched INTERBALL project. Energy analyzers and Faraday's cups onboard the main satellite and the sub-satellite detect localized short duration fluxes of electrons at higher energies, surrounded by a regular lobe plasma. The size of these plasma structures is about 0.5 R_E and their velocity ranges from several km/s to several tens of km/s. We give examples of (1) plasma structures which change their position while the spatial profile of plasma characteristics remains approximately constant, (2) expanding plasma structures, and (3) structures which seem to flap over the satellite pair.

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