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DMSP F7 observations of a substorm field‐aligned current
In this paper we present observations of a substorm field-aligned current (FAC) system that DMSP F7 traversed just after 0300 UT on April 25, 1985. Ground magnetometer data show that a major substorm was in progress at that time and that DMSP F7 flew through a region of predominantly upward FAC. The DMSP F7 magnetic field data are consistent with this interpretation. The precipitating particle data suggest that there were three distinct large-scale FAC systems. In ascending latitude these were a downward current, an upward current, and a paired upward/downward current system. We identify the first current, which was coincident with the diffuse aurora, as region 2. The next (upward) FAC was coincident with a spatially unstructured region of energetic (∼12 keV) electron precipitation. This was the substorm-associated FAC that made up part of the current wedge. The upward/downward current pair was coincident with a region of highly structured precipitation. We suggest that these currents may have been the duskside region 1 and, poleward of that, the extension of the dawnside region 1. The particle data show that the upward substorm current lay well equatorward of the boundary between open and closed field lines. In fact, using a model field, the equatorward boundary of the substorm FAC maps to the neutral sheet at 6.9 RE. While one should be cautious in stressing results obtained by mapping model field lines, our result is consistent with scenarios for substorms which postulate a disruption and diversion of the near-Earth cross-tail current
Friedmann cosmology with a generalized equation of state and bulk viscosity
The universe media is considered as a non-perfect fluid with bulk viscosity
and described by a more general equation of state. We assume the bulk viscosity
is a linear combination of the two terms: one is constant, and the other is
proportional to the scalar expansion . The equation of state
is described as , where is a parameter. This model
can be used to explain the dark energy dominated universe. Different choices of
the parameters may lead to three kinds of fates of the cosmological evolution:
no future singularity, big rip, or Type III singularity of Ref. [S. Nojiri,
S.D. Odintsov, and S. Tsujikawa, Phys. Rev. D \textbf{71}, 063004 (2005)].Comment: 5 pages and 4 fig
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