Ion streams in the magnetotail

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Jun 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981jgr....86.4639s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, June 1, 1981, p. 4639-4648.

Physics

126

Cosmic Plasma, Geomagnetic Tail, Ion Currents, Plasma Jets, Angular Distribution, International Sun Earth Explorer 1, Ion Density (Concentration), Mass Spectroscopy, Solar Wind, Statistical Analysis

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Ion mass spectrometer observations of low-temperature streaming plasmas in the earth's magnetotail are reported. Measurements in the energy per charge range 0 to 17 keV/e were made at geocentric radial distances less than 23 earth radii from the ISEE 1 spacecraft. Ion streams of solar wind origin in the magnetotail boundary layer and of ionospheric origin in the tail lobes and plasma sheet are described. A statistical study of some of the characteristics of the streams allows the inference that the central tail lobe plasmas are primarily constituted of ion streams of ionospheric origin and that the ionosphere is a significant contributor to the hot plasmas that form the plasma sheet.

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