A Plasma Pressure Plateau in the Night Sector of the Earth’s Magnetosphere and Its Stability

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider the behavior of the radial distribution of the plasma pressure, magnetic
field, and plasma parameter in the night sector of the Earth’s magnetosphere at geocentric distances from 7
to 12 RE that are obtained using the THEMIS mission measurements. The results of measurements on the
THEMIS-D and THEMIS-A satellites on February 2009 when the satellites were near the equatorial plane
were analyzed. Time intervals are identified when the plasma pressure actually did not change with a change
in the distance from the Earth. It is shown that profiles with a pressure plateau can exist stably during the day
are destroyed during the period of disturbance and are restored after destruction. The role of the pressure plateau
in the formation of the structure of magnetospheric current systems is discussed

About the authors

I. P. Kirpichev

Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI)

Email: ikir@iki.rssi.ru
Moscow, 117997 Russia

E. E. Antonova

Lomonosov Moscow State University Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (MSU SINP); Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI)

Author for correspondence.
Email: elizaveta.antonova@gmail.com
Moscow, 119991 Russia

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