Electron pitch angle distributions as indicators of magnetic field topology near Mars

By D. Brain, R. Lillis, D. Mitchell, J. Halekas, R. Lin. 2007

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• A review of observed variability in the dayside ionosphere of Mars (2009, methodology): “Cusp-like conditions prevail on their boundaries, which permit solar wind plasma to flow downwards into the ionosphere easily and ionospheric plasma to flow outwards easily (Brain et al., 2007).”
• Structure, dynamics, and seasonal variability of the Mars‐solar wind interaction: MAVEN Solar Wind Ion Analyzer in‐flight performance and science results (2017, background): “In shadow suprathermal electrons disappear almost entirely in some locations (“electron voids” or “suprathermal electron depletions”), while other regions have a more sheath-like spectrum (“flux spikes”), reflecting the effects of the complex magnetic topology around crustal magnetic field sources [”
• The MAVEN Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (2016, background): “At Mars, where crustal magnetic fields can interact with the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), pitch angle distributions reveal whether a given field line is connected at both ends to the crust (a closed loop), connected at one end to the crust and one end to the IMF (an open cusp), or connected ”