Evidence for kinetic Alfvén waves and parallel electron energization at 4-6 RE altitudes in the plasma sheet boundary layer

By J. Wygant, A. Keiling, C. Cattell, R. Lysak, M. Temerin, F. Mozer, Craig Kletzing, J. Scudder, V. Streltsov, W. Lotko and 1 more. 2002

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Alfvén Waves and Their Roles in the Dynamics of the Earth’s Magnetotail: A Review (2009, background): “These parameters render a δE/δB ratio larger than the local Alfvén speed (for examples see Louarn et al. 1994; Volwerk et al. 1996; and Wygant et al. 2002).”
Impulsive Phase Flare Energy Transport by Large-Scale Alfvén Waves and the Electron Acceleration Problem (2007, background): “These lead to field-aligned electric fields, and the presence of such dispersive Alfvén waves and their link to electron acceleration is now well established observationally (e.g.,Wygant et al. 2002).”
How important are dispersive Alfvén waves for auroral particle acceleration? (2007, unknown): “For quasi-steady fieldaligned currents this ratio is DEx/DBy � 1/(moSp )[ Sugiura, 1984 ] where Sp is the height integrated Pedersen conductivity.”