Spatial signature of electron distributions around the X line

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsm41a1448a&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SM41A-1448

Physics

2700 Magnetospheric Physics (6939), 2723 Magnetic Reconnection (7526, 7835), 2744 Magnetotail, 2764 Plasma Sheet, 2790 Substorms

Scientific paper

We present spatial signatures of the electron distribution functions around the X line obtained from the PEACE instrument onboard the Cluster satellites. Highly accelerated electron beams into the X line up to 5 keV with thermalized electrons are observed in the vicinity of the X line as well as < 1 keV electrons related to the field-aligned current which is considered to be connected to the Hall current system, and the flat-top distribution. They are mainly observed in the off-equatorial region with finite magnetic field intensity. In some cases they are rather stable and continuously observed for a few minutes. We discuss generation mechanisms of such distributions by examining their relation to the magnetic field and ion / proton data, and compare them with several theoretical ideas.

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