Correction to “Signatures of nonlinear charged particle dynamics in Geotail comprehensive plasma instrument observations”

Abstract

[1] During the preparation of an article in which we exploit the methodology presented in the paper ‘‘Signatures of nonlinear charged particle dynamics in Geotail comprehensive plasma instrument observations’’ by D. L. Holland, W. R. Paterson, L. A. Frank, S. Kokubun, and Y. Yamamoto (Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 2479, 1999), we came across two errors. Neither of them undermines the basic conclusion that the ion energy resonance signature allows one to infer a lot of information about the mesoscale current sheet structure. It is, however, important to correct the errors since they directly affect the application of the technique. [2] The first error concerns the derivation of equation used for inferring current sheet topology from the resonance peak. The proper derivation is as follows. In their original paper describing the energy resonance phenomena, Burkhart and Chen [1991] followed an source distribution of particles through the modified Harris magnetic field