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Chiu, Y.T.; Gorney, D.J.
Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA (USA)1983
Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA (USA)1983
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[en] Under the simple postulate that multiple large scale detachable magnetospheric convection eddies can exist in the vicinity of the convection reversal boundary and in the polar cap, by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability or otherwise, it is shown that a number of seemingly disconnected plasma and electric field observations in the polar cap can be organized into a theory of magnetosheath and plasmasheet plasma intrusion into the polar cap. Current theory of inverted V structures then predicts existence of similar, but weaker, structures at the eddy convection reversal boundaries in the polar cap. A possible consequence is that the polar cap auroras are natural offshoots from discrete oval arcs and evidently are formed by similar processes. The two arc systems can occassionally produce an optical image in the form of the theta aurora
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May 1983; 25 p; NASA-CR--170377; Available from NTIS, PC A02/MF A01
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