Efficiency of electron acceleration in the Earth's magnetosphere by whistler mode waves

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Feb 2009

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Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, Volume 49, Issue 1, pp.24-29

Physics

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94.05.Pt

Scientific paper

The efficiency of energetic electron cyclotron acceleration in the Earth’s magnetosphere in different regimes of electron resonant interaction with parallel propagating whistler mode waves of variable frequency, specifically, with chorus ELF-VLF emissions, is considered. The regime of stochastic acceleration, typical of the interaction between particles and noise-like emissions, and particle acceleration in the regime of nonlinear trapping by a quasimonochromatic wave field are discussed. The specific feature of the latter regime consists in its non-diffuse character, i.e., the definite sign of the energy variation depending on the frequency variation in the wave packet. The trapped electron energy becomes higher if frequency increases within an element, which is typical of chorus emissions. For the parameters typical of chorus emissions (the amplitude of a wave magnetic field B ˜ = 102 nT, the initial frequency ω ˜ 0.3ω H , and the frequency variation &Dω ˜ 0.15ω H , where ω H is the electron gyrofrequency), the energy increase during one act of such an interaction at L = 4-5 exceeds the rms variation in the energy of untrapped electron (during stochastic acceleration) by one-two orders of magnitude. The estimates indicate that a considerable fraction (several tens of percent) of the chorus element energy can be absorbed by electrons accelerated in the trapping regime during a single hop.

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