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Near‐equatorial magnetospheric particles from ∼1 eV to ∼1 MeV
Author(s) -
Young D. T.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg021i002p00402
Subject(s) - magnetosphere , spacecraft , physics , charged particle , astrobiology , table (database) , ion , atmospheric sciences , geophysics , environmental science , astronomy , nuclear physics , plasma , quantum mechanics , computer science , data mining
This report covers near‐equatorial populations of charged particles found within the Earth's magnetosphere. The spacecraft most responsible for advances in our knowledge of near‐equatorial populations over the past four years are listed in Table 1. Note that all spacecraft carried one or more composition‐measuring instruments. This intensive effort has demonstrated the importance of heavy ions (i.e. species heavier than hydrogen) not only as tracers of particle origins and diagnostics of magnetospheric processes, but also as catalysts and major participants in magnetospheric phenomena.