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Particle acceleration from reconnection in the geomagnetic tail
Report published in 2009 by
J.; Borovsky J. E.; Thomsen M. F.; McComas D. J.; Reeves G. D.; Belian R. D. Los Alamos National L.-A.-B. NM (United States) Birn,
J. E. Borovsky,
M. F. Thomsen,
D. J. McComas,
G. D. Reeves 
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R. D. Belian,
M. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Greenbelt MD (United States). Goddard Flight Center Hesse,
K. Ruhr-Univ Bochum (Germany) Schindler
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R. D. Belian,
M. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Greenbelt MD (United States). Goddard Flight Center Hesse,
K. Ruhr-Univ Bochum (Germany) Schindler
Abstract
Acceleration of charged particles in the near geomagnetic tail, associated with a dynamic magnetic reconnection process, was investigated by a combined effort of data analysis, using Los Alamos data from geosynchronous orbit, MHD modeling of the dynamic evolution of the magnetotail, and test particle tracing in the electric and magnetic fields obtained from the MHD simulation.