期刊
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 45, 期 6, 页码 2566-2573出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2018GL077183
关键词
tail current sheet stability; energetic particle precipitation; remote sensing; substorm growth phase; solar electrons
资金
- Russian Science Foundation [14-17-00072]
- NASA [NNX13AF82G, NNX15AN73G]
- Russian Science Foundation [17-17-00005] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
- NASA [474572, NNX13AF82G, NNX15AN73G, 798002] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1403144] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Magnetic configurations with dBz/dr > 0 in the midtail current sheet are potentially unstable to various instabilities associated with the explosive substorm onset. Their existence is hard to confirm with observations of magnetospheric spacecraft. Here we use remote sensing by low-altitude spacecraft that measured the loss cone filling rate during electron-rich solar particle event, providing information about magnetic properties of the tail current sheet. We found a latitudinally localized anisotropic 30 keV electron loss cone region embedded inside an extended region of isotropic solar electron precipitation. It was persistently observed for more than 0.5 h during isolated growth phase event by six Polar Operational Environmental Satellites spacecraft, which crossed the premidnight auroral oval. The embedded anisotropic region was observed 1 degrees poleward of the outer radiation belt boundary over 4-5 h wide magnetic local time sector, suggesting a persistent ridge-type Bz(2)/j maximum in the equatorial plasma sheet at distances 15-20 R-E. We discuss infrequent observations of such events taking into account recent results of global magnetohydrodynamic simulations.
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