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Title: Dynamic response of the cusp morphology to the interplanetary magnetic field changes: An example observed by Viking

Journal Article · · Journal of Geophysical Research
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/95JA00333· OSTI ID:207220
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna (Sweden)
  2. Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD (United States)

In this article the authors discuss a unique obsevation made in the cusp region by the IMP 8 satellite of ion signatures during a step change in the interplanetary magnetic field from southward to northward, and back southward. The solar wind was relatively steady in density and velocity during this stepwise change. The ion population is observed to have two independent populations, well separated in energy, along the same field lines.

OSTI ID:
207220
Journal Information:
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 100, Issue A5; Other Information: PBD: 1 May 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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