Electron heating process of the lower hybrid drift instability

Details Electron heating process of the lower hybrid drift instability Electron heating process of the lower hybrid drift instability

Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999adspr..24...43s&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 43-46.

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In order to clarify the macroscopic magnetic field diffusion process associated with the lower hybrid drift and the drift kink instabilities, a large-scale two-dimensional electromagnetic full particle simulation has been performed. We find a new magnetic diffusion process which is caused by coupling of the lower hybrid and drift kink instabilities. This process can dissipate the cross-tail current much more efficiently than without coupling. Furthermore, we find that electrons are accelerated along the ambient magnetic field and form flat-top distributions at the outside edge of the plasma sheet in the case of oblique propagation. This electron acceleration may result from the wave-particle interaction between the obliquely propagating lower hybrid waves and electrons.

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