Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
Following a large magnetic storm (17 June 1972), Explorer 45 measured the equatorial particle populations and magnetic field. Using data obtained during the symmetic recovery phase, it is shown that through a series of self-consistent calculations, the measured protons with energies from 1 to 872 keV, can account for the observed ring current magnetic effects within experimental uncertainities. This enables an upper limit to be set for the heavy ion contribution to the storm time ring current.
Keywords:
ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Type:
NASA-TM-X-70779
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X-626-74-305
Format:
application/pdf
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