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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
卷 112, 期 A10, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2007JA012522
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We have investigated the Geotail data statistically to understand the particle sources, transport, and spatial distributions of the plasma sheet ions and electrons of different energies during northward interplanetary magnetic field ( IMF), and their dependences on the solar wind density (N-sw), the solar wind speed (V-sw), and the magnitude of the northward IMF B-z (vertical bar B-z,B-IMF vertical bar). We find that the plasma sheet becomes colder and denser, indicating a larger increase in the cold than in the hot population, with increasing N-sw or vertical bar B-z,B-IMF vertical bar or with decreasing V-sw. The cold population dominates the region near the flanks while the hot population dominates the near-midnight region, which is consistent with the plasma sheet plasma being a mixture of cold particles coming from the flanks and hot particles from the distant-tail. The phase space densities show that the flank source strongly depends on vertical bar B-z,B-IMF vertical bar, while the tail source strongly depends on V-sw. Cold particles from the dawn flank to midnight increase significantly with decreasing V-sw, but no significant changes are seen near the dusk flank, suggesting a dependence of the solar wind entry through the dawn flank on V-sw. The comparisons between the distributions of the phase space density and the electric and magnetic drift paths estimated from the observations indicate that the thermal and high-energy particles are mainly transported by electric and magnetic drift, while other transport mechanisms, such as diffusion, may play a role in transporting the low energy particles from the flank sources to midnight.
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