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Variations in Ion-Component Pressure during Dipolarization in the Near-Earth Magnetotail Plasma Sheet

Malykhin, A. Yu.; Grigorenko, E. E.; Kronberg, E. A. +1 more

The dynamics of fluxes of thermal and suprathermal H⁺ and O⁺ ions and the pressure variations of these components during 11 events of magnetic field dipolarization in the plasma sheet of the geomagnetic tail are analyzed based on Cluster satellite observations. It was found that the energy of H⁺ and O⁺ i…