The association of cusp-aligned arcs with plasma in the magnetotail implies a closed magnetosphere

Autor: Stephen E. Milan, Michaela K Mooney, Gemma E. Bower, Matthew G. G. T. Taylor, Larry J. Paxton, Iannis S Dandouras, Andrew Fazakerley, Christopher M. Carr, Brian J. Anderson, Sarah Kimberly Vines
Rok vydání: 2023
DOI: 10.22541/essoar.167690040.03060486/v1
Popis: We investigate a fifteen-day period in October 2011. Auroral observations by the SSUSI instrument onboard the DMSP F16, F17, and F18 spacecraft indicate that the polar regions were covered by weak cusp-aligned arc emissions whenever the IMF clock angle was small, |θ
Databáze: OpenAIRE