Investigation of the longitude effect manifested in particle fluxes recorded on geostationary satellites
Abstract
It is noted that, because of the lack of coincidence between the geographic and geomagnetic axes, geostationary satellites located at different geographic longitudes occupy different positions in relation to the plasmapause and the edge of the plasma sheet. Owing to this difference, different geostationary satellites should observe different charged-particle spectra for identical MLT and magnetospheric disturbance level. These theoretical results are compared with measurements of electrons with energies of 1 and 5 keV performed from two geostationary satellites located at geographic longitudes of 15 deg W and 90 deg E.
- Publication:
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IN: Magnetospheric physics (A87-51101 23-46). Moscow
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985maph.book..132D
- Keywords:
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- Geodetic Coordinates;
- Longitude;
- Particle Flux Density;
- Synchronous Satellites;
- Charged Particles;
- Electron Energy;
- Plasmapause;
- Geophysics