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Multi-spacecraft studies of the auroral acceleration region: From cluster to nanosatellites

Sadeghi, S.; Emami, M. R.

This paper discusses the utilization of multiple Cubesats in various formations for studies in the auroral acceleration region. The focus is on the quasi-static properties, spatio-temporal features, electric potential structures, field-aligned currents, and their relationships, all of which are fundamentally important for an understanding of the m…

Gyrophase bunched ions in the plasma sheet

Wang, Zhiqiang; Zhai, Hao; Gao, Zhuxiu +1 more

Gyrophase bunched ions were first detected in the upstream region of the Earth's bow shock in the early 1980s which is formed by the microphysical process associated with reflected solar wind ions at the bow shock. Inside the magnetosphere, the results of computer simulations demonstrated that nonlinear wave-particle interaction can also result in…