Simulation of electrostatic turbulence in the plasma sheet boundary layer with electron currents and bean-shaped ion beams

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Jun 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988jgr....93.5929n&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 93, June 1, 1988, p. 5929-5935.

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Computerized Simulation, Ion Beams, Plasma Turbulence, Space Plasmas, Turbulent Boundary Layer, Cold Plasmas, Electromagnetic Noise, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Power Spectra, Temporal Distribution

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Plasma data from ISEE-1 show the presence of electron currents as well as energetic ion beams in the plasma sheet boundary layer. Broadband electrostatic noise and low-frequency electromagnetic bursts are detected in the plasma sheet boundary layer, especially in the presence of strong ion flows, currents, and steep spacial gradients in the fluxes of few-keV electrons and ions. Particle simulations have been performed to investigate electrostatic turbulence driven by a cold electron beam and/or ion beams with a bean-shaped velocity distribution. The simulation results show that the counterstreaming ion beams as well as the counterstreaming of the cold electron beam and the ion beam excite ion acoustic waves with a given Doppler-shifted real frequency. However, the effect of the bean-shaped ion velocity distributions reduces the growth rates of ion acoustic instability. The simulation results also show that the slowing down of the ion bean is larger at the larger perpendicular velocity. The wave spectra of the electric fields at some points of the simulations show turbulence generated by growing waves.

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