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Preliminary empirical model of inner boundary of ion plasma sheet

Dandouras, I.; Cao, J. B.; Reme, H. +4 more

The penetration of the plasma sheet into the inner magnetosphere is important to both ring current formation and spacecraft charging at geosynchronous orbit. This paper, using hot ion data recorded by HIA of TC-1/DSP, establishes an empirical model of the inner boundary of ion plasma sheet (IBIPS) on the near equatorial plane. All IBIPS are locate…