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Acceleration of Auroral Particles by Magnetic-Field Aligned Electric Fields

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Plasma and the Universe

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Measurements on the S3-3 and Viking satellites appear to show that at least a large fraction of magnetic field-aligned potential drops are made up of multiple double layers. Solitons and double layers in U-shaped potential structures give rise to spiky electric fields also perpendicular to the magnetic field in agreement with satellite measurements. The large scale potential structures associated with inverted V-events are built up of many similar short-lived structures on a small scale. Viking measurements indicate that electric fields parallel to the magnetic field are almost always directed upward.

Paper dedicated to Professor Hannes Alfvén on the occasion of his 80th birthday, 30 May 1988.

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  1. Department of Plasma Physics, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    L. P. Block

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  1. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Carl-Gunne Fälthammar

  2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jola, California, USA

    Gustaf Arrhenius

  3. Chevron Oil Field Research Company, La Habra, California, USA

    Bibhas R. De

  4. Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Nicolai Herlofson

  5. University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

    D. Asoka Mendis

  6. Department of Astronomy, The University, Manchester, UK

    Zdeněk Kopal

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Block, L.P. (1988). Acceleration of Auroral Particles by Magnetic-Field Aligned Electric Fields. In: Fälthammar, CG., Arrhenius, G., De, B.R., Herlofson, N., Mendis, D.A., Kopal, Z. (eds) Plasma and the Universe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3021-6_10

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