Plasma Sheet Observations in 1-30 keV Energetic Neutral Atoms

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May 2002

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American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #SM22A-10

Physics

2764 Plasma Sheet

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The Medium Energy Neutral Atom (MENA) imager aboard the IMAGE spacecraft routinely observes the `bright' emissions from around the Earth. Under proper conditions, MENA can also observe the `dim' emissions from the plasma sheet. In order to qualify these emissions, we first investigated the source of elevated backgrounds periodically observed by MENA. We find that elevated background rates are well correlated with enhanced GOES-8 proton fluxes in the 0.7--4MeV range. When these fluxes drop below ~10cm-2 s-1 sr-1 MeV-1, MENA's count rates when looking away from the Earth nearly flatten out, indicating times when the dim ENA emissions are visible above the background. MENA observations of the plasma sheet are correlated with observations of the Super Dense Plasma Sheet (SDPS) as seen by the Magnetospheric Plasma Analyzer (MPA). Observation of the plasma sheet by MENA are shown from intervals when SDPS are identified and when MENA has both a low background and is in a viewing geometry to look down the tail.

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