Abstract
Summary form only given. The physics of the magnetosphere are characterized by the formation of thin boundaries. It is within these narrow regions that energy conversion and particle acceleration processes occur. These processes are often controlled by nonlinear microphysics occurring on time scales as fast as a few microseconds. To understand these phenomena it is necessary to measure the plasma distributions and time-domain electric and magnetic fields with appropriately high time resolution. Satellites have recently measured such phenomena as the dissipation mechanisms in the collisionless bow shock; large, spiky fields in the plasma sheet boundary layer; and the double layers which accelerate particles in the auroral zone.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts |
| Publisher | Publ by IEEE |
| Pages | 87-88 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1990 |
| Event | 1990 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science - Oakland, CA, USA Duration: May 21 1990 → May 23 1990 |
Other
| Other | 1990 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science |
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| City | Oakland, CA, USA |
| Period | 5/21/90 → 5/23/90 |