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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 116, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.145101
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- NASA [NNX08AO83]
- JHU/APL [922613]
- Dmitry Zimin Dynasty Foundation
- Presidental Grant [MK-7757.2016.2]
- NASA at SwRI [NNG04EB99 C]
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The same time domain structures (TDS) have been observed on two Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites near Earth's dayside magnetopause. These TDS, traveling away from the X line along the magnetic field at 4000 km/s, accelerated field-aligned similar to 5 eV electrons to similar to 200 eV by a single Fermi reflection of the electrons by these overtaking barriers. Additionally, the TDS contained both positive and negative potentials, so they were a mixture of electron holes and double layers. They evolve in similar to 10 km of space or 7 ms of time and their spatial scale size is 10-20 km, which is much larger than the electron gyroradius (< 1 km) or the electron inertial length (4 km at the observation point, less nearer the X line).
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