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A quantitative model for cyclotron wave-particle interactions at the plasmapause |
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D. L. Pasmanik, V. Y. Trakhtengerts, A. G. Demekhov, A. A. Lyubchich, E. E. Titova, T. Yahnina, M. J. Rycroft, J. Manninen, T. Turunen |
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Artikel
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Englisch
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0992-7689
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In: Annales Geophysicae ; 16, no. 3 ; Nr. 16, no. 3, S.322-330 |
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250013199
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Publikation (Nr.) |
copernicus.org/angeo-16-322-1998.pdf |
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Zusammenfassung |
The formation of a zone of energetic electron
precipitation by the plasmapause, a region of enhanced plasma density, following
energetic particle injection during a magnetic storm, is analyzed. Such a region
can also be formed by detached cold plasma clouds appearing in the outer
magnetosphere by restructuring of the plasmasphere during a magnetic storm. As a
mechanism of precipitation, wave-particle interactions by the cyclotron
instability between whistler-mode waves and electrons are considered. In the
framework of the self-consistent equations of quasi-linear plasma theory, the
distribution function of trapped electrons and the electron precipitation
pattern are found. The theoretical results are compared with experimental data
obtained from NOAA satellites.
Key words. Magnetospheric physics · Energetic
particles · Precipitating and trapped · Plasma waves and instabilities |
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