Simultaneous observations of substorm electrons - Explorer 45 and ATS 5

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Feb 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977jgr....82..531b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 82, Feb. 1, 1977, p. 531-536.

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Atmospheric Electricity, Electric Fields, Magnetic Storms, Magnetospheric Electron Density, Satellite Observation, Ats 5, Electron Flux Density, Energy Spectra, Explorer Satellites, Plasma Layers

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Simultaneous observations of substorm-associated electron flux variations made on the satellites Explorer 45 and ATS 5 are used to infer the value of the dawn-dusk electric field present during a substorm. The observations were made during a substorm which occurred on December 17, 1971, while the two satellites were in the evening local time sector, within the plasma sheet. It is found that a dawn-dusk electric field of about 11 kV/R-E (about 2 mV/m) was present during the substorm. It is shown that the observations made at the two satellites are compatible with the model of a uniform enhanced dawn-dusk electric field acting upon a particle source which is spatially uniform in the region from which particles are convected to synchronous orbit.

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