Hybrid Simulations of Ion Cyclotron Waves at Io

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May 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005agusmsm13a..08c&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2005, abstract #SM13A-08

Physics

2152 Pickup Ions, 2159 Plasma Waves And Turbulence, 2732 Magnetosphere Interactions With Satellites And Rings, 2753 Numerical Modeling

Scientific paper

We study the evolution of ions picked up into a plasma flowing perpendicular to a background magnetic field using a 1D electromagnetic hybrid simulation code. Such a pickup geometry occurs in the Io plasma torus, where ions originating from volcanic activity on Io are mass loaded into the corotating plasma torus in the presence of a predominantly southward magnetic field. Free energy associated with this mass loading process leads to the generation of low amplitude ion cyclotron waves. Previously, dispersion analyses of the wave generation process at Io employed dispersion solvers which approximated the mass loaded ring distribution of ions with gaussian distributions. In this simulation ring beam ions are realistically simulated. We compare simulations of various ion species and loading rates with linear theory.

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