The dynamics of low-beta plasma clouds as simulated by a three-dimensional, electromagnetic particle code

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Aug 1992

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A8, Aug. 1, 1992, p. 12,057-12,072.

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Plasma Clouds, Plasma Dynamics, Three Dimensional Models, Computerized Simulation, Electron Acceleration

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A 3D electromagnetic and relativistic particle simulation code is used to investigate the dynamics of low-beta plasma clouds moving perpendicular to an ambient magnetic field in vacuum and in a background plasma. The simulations show the formation of the space charge sheaths at the sides of the cloud with the associated polarization electric field which facilitate the cross-field propagation, as well as the sheaths at the front and rear end of the cloud caused by the larger ion Larmor radius, which allows ions to move ahead and lag behind the electrons as they gyrate. It is found that, in a background plasma, electron and ion sheaths expand along the magnetic field at the same rate, whereas in vacuum the electron sheath expands much faster than the ion sheath. Sheath clouds are accelerated up to relativistic energies, which indicates that artificial plasma clouds released in the ionosphere or magnetosphere may generate optical emissions as energetic sheath electrons scatter in the upper atmosphere.

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