Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006jgra..11106105g&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 111, Issue A6, CiteID A06105
Physics
Plasma Physics
11
Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984), Space Plasma Physics: Kinetic Waves And Instabilities, Interplanetary Physics: Plasma Waves And Turbulence, Interplanetary Physics: Solar Wind Plasma
Scientific paper
This paper describes results from ensembles of hybrid simulations of steady, homogeneous, collisionless plasmas characterized by average solar wind parameters near 1 AU upon which damped, resonant Alfvén-cyclotron fluctuations are imposed. The applied fluctuations propagate parallel to the background magnetic field Bo. The ensembles yield late-time proton and alpha particle responses to such fluctuations as functions of the initial magnitude of the applied fluctuating magnetic field energy and the initial vαp/vA (where vαp is the alpha/proton relative speed and vA is the Alfvén speed). The simulations show a strong, consistent negative correlation between the alpha temperature anisotropy T$\perp$α/T$\parallel$α (where the directional subscripts refer to directions perpendicular and parallel to Bo) and vαp/vA. On average the simulations also show a weaker, positive correlation between the proton temperature anisotropy and vαp/vA. Both correlations are in agreement with statistical observations from the solar wind near 1 AU, thereby confirming earlier conclusions that such observations are signatures of Alfvén-cyclotron scattering of ions in the solar wind.
Gary Peter S.
Winske Dan
Yin Lin
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