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. 2020 Jan 9;11:141. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13920-w

Table 1.

Liouville tracing of the phase-space densities of the crescents in velocity space.

We [eV] Ve [103 km s1] de [km] ΔWe [eV] WeLt [eV] VeLt [103 km s1] ΔVe [103 km s1]
93 5.7 2.4 −42 51 4.2 −1.5
122 6.6 2.9 −48 74 5.1 −1.5
161 7.5 3.4 −56 105 6.1 −1.4
212 8.6 4.1 −62 150 7.2 −1.4
279 9.9 4.8 −71 208 8.5 −1.4
367 11.4 5.7 −80 287 10.0 −1.4
481 13.0 6.7 −81 400 11.8 −1.2
631 14.9 7.8 −83 548 13.9 −1.0

We and Ve denote the electron energy and kinetic velocity, respectively. de is the gyro-diameter (see Fig. 5b). ΔWe and ΔVe represent the changes of the electron energy and velocity across the gyro-diameter (see Fig. 5d), while the superscript Lt denotes the Liouville tracing values