Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....97.1109w&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, Feb. 1, 1992, p. 1109-1119.
Physics
48
Coulomb Collisions, Magnetoplasmadynamics, Plasmasphere, Kinetics, Magnetic Storms, Models, Space Plasmas
Scientific paper
A collisionless, time-dependent, kinetic plasma model is applied to the problem of baseline plasmasphere refilling of an initially depleted flux tube, without regard for the effects of wave-particle interactions. Refilling calculations for various flux tubes and for different ionospheric plasma fluxes and temperatures are performed. In each case considered, the same set of events occurs. Initially, two polar wind outflows develop from each hemisphere and set up counterstreaming beams. With time the vacant phase space region between these beams fills, primarily because of collision-induced particle diffusion but also because of lowering ambipolar potential drops from the increasing density in the plasmasphere. In contrast to all previous hydrodynamic approaches, no formation of shocks was found. The plasma first evolves an isotropic, nearly Maxwellian velocity distribution in a region that starts near the ionosphere and moves outward toward the equator. For reasonable topside ionospheric temperatures and fluxes, the thermal plasma all along an L shell is found to become nearly isotropic in 6 to 30 hr, consistent with the observations of Horwitz et al. (1984).
Horwitz James L.
Lin Juhn-Jong
Wilson Gordon Ray
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