A case study of EMIC wave-associated He+ energization in the inner magnetosphere

Details A case study of EMIC wave-associated He+ energization in the inner magnetosphere A case study of EMIC wave-associated He+ energization in the inner magnetosphere

Dec 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsm11b1714z&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM11B-1714

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Plasma Physics

[2730] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosphere: Inner, [2740] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, [2772] Magnetospheric Physics / Plasma Waves And Instabilities, [7867] Space Plasma Physics / Wave/Particle Interactions

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On 30 March 2002, the COmposition and DIstribution Function (CODIF) Analyzer on board the Cluster spacecraft observed a He+ energization event from 0755 to 0823 UT. In the event, He+ ions were energized up to 0.4 keV and the heating was perpendicular to magnetic field. We perform a case study of the event by using in situ plasma and magnetic field measurements from the Cluster CIS-CODIF, WHISPER, EFW, and FGM instruments and ground-based wave observations. During the event, the four Cluster spacecraft, passing through perigee, were located at L = ~4.4 and MLT = ~22.3 near the equatorial plane. Cluster sampled two types of ion populations: 1) cold, dense ions originating from the plasmasphere and 2) hot, anisotropic ions (mostly H+) from the ring current. Significant electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) wave activity (PTot ≥ 1.0 nT2/Hz) was found near fHe+, eq (= ~1.0 Hz) in the wavelet transform spectrograms of the high-resolution FGM magnetic field measurements. The He+ energization event was thus caused through resonant interactions between cold He+ ions and the EMIC wave, which had obtained free energies from hot (2 - 40 keV) H+ with temperature anisotropy as high as 2.

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