Streaming reversal of energetic particles in the magnetotail during a substorm

Details Streaming reversal of energetic particles in the magnetotail during a substorm Streaming reversal of energetic particles in the magnetotail during a substorm

Sep 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984esasp.217..193l&link_type=abstract

In ESA Achievements of the Intern. Magnetospheric Study (IMS) p 193-197 (SEE N85-24544 14-46)

Physics

Geomagnetic Tail, Magnetic Storms, Particle Acceleration, Explorer 50 Satellite, Magnetic Signatures, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Velocity Distribution

Scientific paper

Reversal from tailward to earthward streaming ions during a substorm is studied with IMP-8 measurements of energetic particles, plasma, and magnetic field. The data sets display the classical signatures of a substorm neutral line. It is found that the times of streaming reversal of energetic ions and plasma do not coincide, and the velocity distribution in the tailward flowing plasma has a crescent shape, whereas that in the earthward flowing, plasma resembles a convecting Maxwellian. It is suggested that the streaming reversal in this event is due to the spacecraft traversing different plasma regions rather than due to the motion of an X-type neutral line moving past the spacecraft.

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