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Terasawa et al. 2000

Terasawa, T., Kasaba, Y., Tsubouchi, K., Mukai, T., Saito, Y., Frank, L.A., Paterson, W.R., Ackerson, K., Matsumoto, H., Kojima, H., Matsui, H., Larson, D., Lin, R., Phan, T., Steinberg, J., McComas, D., Skoug, R., Fujimoto, M., Hoshino, M. and Nishida, A. (2000). GEOTAIL observations of anomalously low density plasma in the magnetosheath. Geophysical Research Letters 27: doi: 10.1029/2000GL000087. issn: 0094-8276.

During the anomalously low density solar wind interval of May 1999, GEOTAIL was in the magnetosheath for ~37 hours after making an inbound crossing of the expanding bow shock at ~80 RE upstream of its nominal position. Comparison among data sets obtained from GEOTAIL (magnetosheath), WIND (near upstream-bow shock), and ACE (far upstream) reveals several unique features: Firstly, during the interval of 1430--1530 UT on 11 May, we observed both in the solar wind and magnetosheath double-peaked protons with a peak separation of 250--300 km/s, which was close to the local Alfv¿n velocity during the event. Secondly, we observed extremely strong strahl electrons both in the solar wind and magnetosheath during the interval of 0600--2100 UT on 11 May 1999. We present an overview of the GEOTAIL observations, and discuss their physical significance. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union

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Keywords
Interplanetary Physics, Solar wind plasma, Magnetospheric Physics, Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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American Geophysical Union
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