Consequences of proton and alpha anisotropies in the solar wind: Hybrid simulations

Details Consequences of proton and alpha anisotropies in the solar wind: Hybrid simulations Consequences of proton and alpha anisotropies in the solar wind: Hybrid simulations

Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufmsh12a0390g&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #SH12A-0390

Physics

7827 Kinetic And Mhd Theory, 7843 Numerical Simulation Studies, 7867 Wave/Particle Interactions, 7871 Waves And Instabilities

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Alfvén-like fluctuations in the solar corona and solar wind may cascade from lower to higher frequencies where they transfer energy via cyclotron resonances to ions of successively higher charge-to-mass-ratios. This yields Tperpendicular to }/T{∥ > 1 for each ion species, where the subscripts refer to directions relative to the background magnetic field. If sufficiently large, these anisotropies drive electromagnetic ion cyclotron instabilities. This manuscript describes the use of two-dimensional hybrid simulations of a collisionless, homogeneous, magnetized plasma with both protons and alpha particles to study the consequences of scattering by enhanced field fluctuations from such instabilities. The most important new results are that both helium and proton cyclotron instabilities reduce initial differences between the proton and alpha particle anisotropies, and also reduce initial alpha/proton relative speeds. These simulation results are different from theoretical predictions of ion responses to their direct interaction with cascading Alfvén/cyclotron waves, but are consistent with observations from the Ulysses spacecraft.

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