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Prediction and Observation of Electron Instabilities and Phase Space Holes Concentrated in the Lunar Plasma Wake |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/T1RFIH |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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2018-09-17 |
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Ian H. Hutchinson, David M. Malaspina, 2018, "Prediction and Observation of Electron Instabilities and Phase Space Holes Concentrated in the Lunar Plasma Wake", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T1RFIH, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Prediction and Observation of Electron Instabilities and Phase Space Holes Concentrated in the Lunar Plasma Wake |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/T1RFIH |
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Authoring Entity: |
Ian H. Hutchinson, David M. Malaspina |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T1RFIH |
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Physics, ARTEMIS, collisionless plasmas, holes, nonlinear theory, space plasmas |
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Recent theory and numerical simulation predicts that the wake of the solar wind flow past the moon should be the site of electrostatic instabilities that give rise to electron holes. These play an important role in the eventual merging of the wake with the background solar wind. Analysis of measurements from the ARTEMIS satellites, orbiting the moon at distances from 1.2 to 11 R [sub M], detects holes highly concentrated in the wake, in agreement with prediction. The theory also predicts that the hole flux-density observed should be hollow, peaking away from the wake axis. Observation statistics qualitatively confirm this hollowness, lending extra supporting evidence for the identification of their generation mechanism. |
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<a href="http://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/reports/2010/17ja/17ja044/abstract.php">PSFC REPORT PSFC/JA-17-44</a><br /><br />This work was funded by NASA award NNX16AG82G. All data used in this work are available on the THEMIS/ARTEMIS archive: http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/data/themis/. |
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This dataset is made available without information on how it can be used. You should communicate with the Contact(s) specified before use. |
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