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Collier et al. 2005
Collier, M.R., Moore, T.E., Fok, M., Pilkerton, B., Boardsen, S. and Khan, H. (2005). Low-energy neutral atom signatures of magnetopause motion in response to southward Bz. Journal of Geophysical Research 110: doi: 10.1029/2004JA010626. issn: 0148-0227.

We report an event observed by the Low-Energy Neutral Atom (LENA) imager on 18 April 2001, in which enhanced neutral atom emission was observed coming from the direction of the Sun and from the general direction of the subsolar magnetopause. The enhanced neutral atom emission is shown to be primarily a result of increased solar wind charge exchange with the Earth's hydrogen exosphere, that is, enhanced neutral solar wind formation, occurring in conjunction with a southward turning of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) which moves the magnetopause closer to the Earth. It is shown that the neutral atom flux under compressed magnetopause conditions is extremely sensitive to changes in the IMF north-south component.

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Keywords
Interplanetary Physics, Neutral particles, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosheath, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetopause and boundary layers, Magnetospheric Physics, Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions, neutral atoms, magnetopause, interplanetary magnetic field, neutral solar wind, magnetosheath
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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