Supersonic ion outflows in the polar magnetosphere via the geomagnetic spectrometer

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Nov 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985georl..12..757h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 12, Nov. 1985, p. 757-760.

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Ion Motion, Magnetospheric Instability, Polar Caps, Supersonic Flow, Ion Distribution, Kinetic Theory, Mach Number, Oxygen Ions, Positive Ions, Two Dimensional Models

Scientific paper

Observations of 'supersonic' O(+) outflows by DE-1 in the polar magnetosphere are interpreted as a velocity-filter effect resulting from the transport of these low energy ions from a horizontally narrow source associated with the polar cleft topside ionosphere into the polar cap magnetosphere. Under certain simplifying circumstances, it is shown that the 'Mach number' for the flow is essentially a geometrically determined quantity, approximately the ratio of the horizontal distance of the observation location to the source over the horizontal width of the source. A recently developed two-dimensional kinetic model of ion transport in the polar magnetosphere is used to calculate distribution functions and the associated bulk flow parameters, and these calculated quantities are compared with measured flow parameters from DE-1.

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