Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsm41a..10z&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SM41A-10
Physics
2720 Energetic Particles: Trapped, 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner, 2753 Numerical Modeling, 2778 Ring Current
Scientific paper
Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) emission detection serves as an innovative diagnostic tool for detailed investigations of energetic particles and has contributed greatly in addressing key issues of storm and substorm dynamics. ENAs, which are products of charge exchange between singly charged energetic ions and neutrals of the geocorona, carry not only spectral information but also composition of source plasma and therefore enable global imaging of ring current ions. An inter-spacecraft comparison of energetic neutral oxygen (ENO) intensity from two different vantage points, provided by IMAGE and Geotail, showed that viewing perspective plays a very important role in the observed ENO intensity level during a magnetic storm period [Lui et al., 2005]. Motivated by the findings, we investigate how viewing perspective influences energetic neutral atom emissions from a modeling perspective. Our simulation results, based upon O+ ion fluxes from the Comprehensive Ring Current Model (CRCM) and the subsequent ENO calculation, reproduce the total differential ENO intensity obtained from two spacecraft to a reasonable degree. Further analysis of our results indicates that pitch angle anisotropy in ring current ion flux, a crucial physical quantity in ring current and radiation belt dynamics, is one major contributor to the difference in energetic neutral atom intensity from different viewing perspectives. Using the CRCM, we will also examine the role of O+ in the storm-time ring current dynamics. Lui, A. T. Y. et al., Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L13104, doi:10.1029/2005GL022851 (2005).
Fok M.-
Lui A. T.
Zheng Yuanlin
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