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An improved magnetospheric electric field model is used to compute the initial locations of particles injected by several substorms. Trajectories are traced from the time of their encounter with the ATS-5 satellite backwards to the onset time given by ground-based magnetometers. A spiral shaped inner boundary of injection is found which is quite similar to that found by a statistical analysis. This injection boundary is shown to move in an energy dependent fashion which can explain the soft energy spectra observed at the inner edge of the electrons plasma sheet.
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McIlwain, C.E. (1974). Substorm Injection Boundaries. In: McCormac, B.M. (eds) Magnetospheric Physics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2214-9_13
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