A study of electron phase-space holes in the polar magnetosphere

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Mar 2000

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Thesis (PhD). CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Source DAI-B 60/09, p. 4680, Mar 2000, 300 pages.

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Coherent electric field structures are often detected by the Polar spacecraft in high altitude passes through the cusp and the plasma sheet. The primary contribution of this dissertation is the experimental determination of the properties of these fundamentally nonlinear plasma waves. The coherent structures correspond to positive potential pulses that propagate parallel and anti- parallel to the geomagnetic field at velocities the order of the electron thermal speed. In the cusp the structures have parallel scale sizes (L∥)>=l D , while in the plasma sheet about half of the structures have L∥1 , and that L⊥/L∥ increases with decreasing We/wp . Although this dissertation deals exclusively with observations in the high altitude polar magnetosphere, several other satellite experiments have detected the structures in many other regions of space. Therefore, this study has made advances in the understanding of the fundamental physics of a phenomenon that is common in the near-Earth space environment.

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