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Büchner 1991

Büchner, J. (1991). Correlation-modulated chaotic scattering in the Earth's magnetosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 18: doi: 10.1029/91GL01905. issn: 0094-8276.

We show that due to correlations between subsequent separatrix traversals the chaotic scattering of thermal ions and energetic electrons in the plasma sheet of the Earth's magnetotail is modulated, oscillating in dependence on the strength of the magnetic field in inhomogeneity and particle energy. Correlation-modulated chaotic scattering creates non-Maxwellian features of the magnetotail ion distribution both in the CPS and the PSBL. It also causes an oscillating latitudinal variation of the auroral ion precipitation. ¿American Geophysical Union 1991

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Keywords
Space Plasma Physics, Charged particle motion and acceleration, Space Plasma Physics, Discontinuities, Space Plasma Physics, Nonlinear phenomena, Space Plasma Physics, Transport processes

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Geophysical Research Letters
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