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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 98, Issue 26, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.265001
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E001173/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [PP/E001173/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Solitary nonlinear (delta B/B >> 1) electromagnetic pulses have been detected in Earth's geomagnetic tail accompanying plasmas flowing at super-Alfvenic speeds. The pulses in the current sheet had durations of similar to 5 s, were left-hand circularly polarized, and had phase speeds of approximately the Alfven speed in the plasma frame. These pulses were associated with a field-aligned current J(parallel to) and observed in low density (similar to 0.3 cm(-3)), high temperature (T-e similar to T-i similar to 3x10(7) K), and beta similar to 10 plasma that included electron and ion beams streaming along B. The wave activity was enhanced from below the ion cyclotron frequency to electron cyclotron and upper hybrid frequencies. The detailed properties suggest the pulses are nonlinearly steepened ion cyclotron or Alfven waves.
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