Solar wind plasma injection at the dayside magnetospheric cusp

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Feb 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977jgr....82..479r&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 82, Feb. 1, 1977, p. 479-491.

Physics

67

Crossed Fields, Earth Magnetosphere, Plasma Diffusion, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Satellite Observation, Solar Wind, Charged Particles, Cusps, Daytime, Explorer Satellites, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Particle Motion

Scientific paper

Two mechanisms have been proposed for solar wind particle injection at the dayside magnetospheric cusps: magnetic merging and cross-field diffusion. These two mechanisms are experimentally distinguishable in that they produce different latitudinal distributions of particles penetrating to the low-altitude cusp. An examination of proton and electron measurements obtained by the AE-C satellite in the low-altitude dayside cusp reveals evidence of both types of injection processes. A majority of the injection events, especially the more intense fluxes, are best explained by a merging injection model in which cusp particles are confined to the poleward side of the last closed field line and have a characteristic energy that decreases with increasing latitudinal distance from the last closed field line. Less frequent and less intense injection events are better explained in terms of a diffusive injection of cusp particles onto closed dayside field lines with a characteristic energy that increases with increasing latitudinal distance from the last closed field line. Although diffusion appears to be quantitatively less important than merging in terms of the instantaneous particle injection rate, cross-field diffusion nevertheless appears to proceed at an unexpectedly fast rate, possibly exceeding the Bohm diffusion limit.

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