Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsm11a1544g&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SM11A-1544
Physics
[2712] Magnetospheric Physics / Electric Fields, [2721] Magnetospheric Physics / Field-Aligned Currents And Current Systems, [2730] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosphere: Inner, [2764] Magnetospheric Physics / Plasma Sheet
Scientific paper
Transport of plasma sheet particles into the inner magnetosphere is strongly affected by the penetration of the convection electric field, which is the result of the large-scale magnetosphere ionosphere electromagnetic coupling. This transport, on the other hand, results in plasma heating and magnetic field stretching, which become very significant in the inner plasma sheet (inside 20 RE). We have previously run simulations with the Rice Convection Model (RCM), using the Tsyganenko 96 magnetic field model, to investigate how the earthward penetration of electric field depends on plasma sheet conditions. Outer proton and electron sources at r ~20 RE, are based on 11 years of Geotail data, and realistically represent the mixture of cold and hot plasma sheet population as a function of MLT and interplanetary conditions. We found that shielding of the inner magnetosphere electric field is more efficient for a colder and denser plasma sheet, which is found following northward IMF, than for the hotter and more tenuous plasma sheet found following southward IMF. Our simulation results so far indicate further earthward penetration of plasma sheet particles in response to enhanced convection if the preceding IMF is southward, which leads to weaker electric field shielding. Recently we have integrated the RCM with a magnetic field solver to obtain magnetic fields that are in force balance with given plasma pressures in the equatorial plane. We expect the self-consistent magnetic field to have a pronounced dawn dusk asymmetry due to the asymmetric inner magnetospheric pressure. This should affect the radial distance and MLT of plasma sheet penetration into the inner magnetosphere. We are currently using this force-balanced and self-consistent model with our realistic boundary conditions to evaluate the dependence of the shielding timescale on pre-existing plasma sheet number density and temperature and to more quantitatively determine the correlation between the plasma sheet conditions and spatial distribution of the penetrating particles. Our results are potentially crucial to understanding the contribution of plasma sheet penetration to the development of the storm-time ring current.
Gkioulidou Matina
Lyons Larry R.
Wang Chenjie
Wolf Robert
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