On the auroral double-layer criterion

Details On the auroral double-layer criterion On the auroral double-layer criterion

Feb 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980jgr....85..788k&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 85, Feb. 1, 1980, p. 788-790.

Physics

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Atmospheric Stratification, Auroras, Electron Energy, Plasma Layers, Geomagnetism, Magnetic Fields, Magnetically Trapped Particles, Potential Energy

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It is shown that the minimum electron streaming speed required in the Bohm-Block criterion for the existence of one-dimensional double-layer solutions can be relaxed by the presence of a sufficient population of trapped electrons with energies in the parallel motion ranging up to the double-layer potential energy. The resulting auroral double-layer criterion is found to be relatively independent of the forms of the particle distribution functions. The trapped electrons can be identified with the energy-degraded primary electrons and the secondary electrons on auroral field lines. The magnetic mirror due to the converging geomagnetic field and the electron-neutral collisions in the upper atmosphere are necessary elements in building up the trapped electron population.

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