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Trattner et al. 1994
Trattner, K.J., Möbius, E., Scholer, M., Klecker, B., Hilchenbach, M. and Lühr, H. (1994). Statistical analysis of diffuse ion events upstream of the Earth's bow shock. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: doi: 10.1029/94JA00576. issn: 0148-0227.

A statistical study of diffuse energetic ion events and their related waves upstream of the Earth's bow shock was performed using data from the Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers/Ion Release Module satellite over two 5-month periods in 1984 and 1985. The data set was used to test the assumption in the self-consistent model of the upstream wave and particle populations by Lee (1982) that the particle acceleration through hydromagnetic waves and the wave generation are directly coupled. The comparison between the observed wave power and the wave power predicted on the observed energetic particle energy density and solar wind parameters results in a high correlation coefficient of about 0.89. The intensity of diffuse ions falls off approximately exponentially with the distance upstream from the bow shock parallel to the magnetic field with e-folding distances which vary from ~3.3 RE to ~11.7 RE over the energy range from 10 keV/e to 67.3 keV/e for both protons and alpha particles. After normalizing the upstream particle densities to zero bow shock distance by using these exponential variations, a good correlation (0.7) of the density of the diffuse ions with the solar wind density was found. This supports the suggestion that the solar wind is the source of the diffuse ions. Furthermore, the spectral slope of the diffuse ions correlates well with the solar wind velocity component in the direction of the interplanetary magnetic field (0.68 and 0.66 for protons and alpha particles) which concurs with the notion that the solar wind plays an important role in the acceleration of the upstream particles. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1994

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Interplanetary Physics, Planetary bow shocks, Interplanetary Physics, Energetic particles, Interplanetary Physics, Plasma waves and turbulence, Space Plasma Physics, Wave-particle interactions
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