Birkeland currents, parallel electric fields and plasma instabilities often occur together in time and space and play an important role in large scale plasma motions between the ionosphere and magnetosphere and along the magnetic field in the magnetosphere. The results of the plasma movements are large density and composition variations in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Observations from ISIS-2 at 1400 km altitude show large densities with heavy ions dominating in regions with upward Birkeland currents, and low densities and light ions in regions with downward currents. Observations from ISEE-1 in field aligned current regions at 10,000 to 15,000 km altitude show transverse heating of protons and oxygen ions to 250 eV. Because of the different mobility of the protons and oxygen ions the proton flow is important in the beginning of the events but later the outflow becomes almost pure oxygen. Similarly ISEE-1 observations of outgoing field ion beams at 10,000 to 15,000 km altitude show time variations in the H+/O+ ratios and a dominance of O+ later in the events.


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    Titel :

    Compositional changes, time and density variations in the magnetosphere associated with Birkeland currents and particle acceleration


    Beteiligte:
    Ungstrup, E. (Autor:in) / Heikkila, W. J. (Autor:in) / Foster, J. C. (Autor:in) / Lennartsson, W. O. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1986-01-01



    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


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