Characteristics of Terrestrial-Source Ion Distributions In and Around the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer

Barbara L Giles1, Charles R Chappell2, Thomas Earle Moore3, Michael O Chandler4, William R Paterson5, Katherine Garcia-Sage6, James L Burch7, Roy B Torbert7, Levon A Avanov8, Scott A Boardsen9, Li J Chen8, Victoria N Coffey10, John C Dorelli8, Stephen A Fuselier7, Daniel J Gershman11, Naritoshi Kitamura12, Benoit Lavraud13, David A Mackler14, Tai Phan15, Craig J Pollock16, Amy Catherine Rager17, Christopher T Russell18, Yoshifumi Saito19, Conrad Schiff20, Jason R Shuster11, Suzanne Elizabeth Smith6, Robert J Strangeway21, Adolfo F. Vinas8, Shan Wang22 and Eftyhia Zesta8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (12)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan, (13)Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux, Pessac, France, (14)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, DC, United States, (15)UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (16)Denali Scientific, San Antonio, TX, United States, (17)Catholic University of America, Physics, Washington, United States, (18)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (19)ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan, (20)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Aurora Engineering), Greenbelt, United States, (21)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (22)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States