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Auroral Source Region: Plasma Properties Of The High-Latitude Plasma Sheet, C. A. Kletzing, J. D. Scudder, E. E. Dors, Carina Curto
Auroral Source Region: Plasma Properties Of The High-Latitude Plasma Sheet, C. A. Kletzing, J. D. Scudder, E. E. Dors, Carina Curto
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Statistical results from a survey of 93 passes through the high-latitude extension of the plasma sheet of electron data from the Hydra instrument on the Polar spacecraft show that the values for electron density can range from 0.01 to 0.5 cm–3 with an average value around 0.1 cm–3 on the poleward side and 0.3 cm–3 on the equatorward side. Electron mean energy is found to have an average value near 900 eV on the equatorward side and 400 eV on the poleward side but varies from 100 eV to 4 keV. These values for density and mean …