The ring current.

摘要: It is proposed that the quiet-time ring current consists of two parts, inner imbedded deeply inside plasmapause and outer flowing in plasma sheet. The source appears to be trapped protons with energies 100 keV several hundred having their peak intensity at 3 4 R sub e. dominant population energy near 50 sheet, as Frank's (1967) model for extraterrestrial current. an innermost part tail current, its earthward extension. pressure nearly continuous from sheet region. When moves inward during a substorm, increase directly conveyed plasmasphere intensifies