Estimates of the north-south electric field component in the magnetotail low latitude boundary layer

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Jun 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981georl...8..637c&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 8, June 1981, p. 637-640.

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Boundary Layer Plasmas, Electric Fields, Geomagnetic Tail, Plasma Diagnostics, Satellite Observation, Data Reduction, Drift Rate, Ecliptic, Electromagnetic Measurement, International Sun Earth Explorer 2, Ion Motion

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Measurements of O(+) ion drift velocity in the earth's magnetotail boundary layer are used to infer the north-south electric field (E sub z) component of the local electric field. The data set was obtained from ISEE-2 satellite measurements taken from February to June, 1978, when the satellite explored the earth's magnetotail region, and analyzed by computing the solar ecliptic X and Y components of the velocity beams. It is shown that E sub z is generally a substantial component of the field, and that it reverses its sign from the dawn to the dusk side of the northern magnetotail between X sub SM = -15 earth radii, and X sub SM = -23 earth radii.

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