Geophysical Research Letters | 2019

Electron-Driven Dissipation in a Tailward Flow Burst

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Abstract


Traditionally, the magnetotail flow burst outside the diffusion region is known to carry ions and electrons together (V-i = V-e), with the frozen-in condition well satisfied (E + V-e x B = 0). Such ...

Volume 46
Pages 5698-5706
DOI 10.1029/2019GL082503
Language English
Journal Geophysical Research Letters

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