Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999jgr...10417233c&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 104, Issue A8, p. 17233-17250
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena, Magnetospheric Physics: Electric Fields, Ionosphere: Particle Acceleration, Magnetospheric Physics: Numerical Modeling
Scientific paper
Particle-in-cell simulations reveal characteristics of small-scale nearly perpendicular nonlinear inertial Alfvén waves in the electrostatic limit, during wave steepening and electron beam generation. These electrostatic inertial Alfvén waves (ESIAW) propagate with only weak electron Landau damping for Ti/Te>>1. Nonlinear amplitude initial conditions convectively steepen and evolve higher wavenumber structures similar in morphology and magnitude to previous results from a fluid-kinetic model. Shorter wavelength acoustic waves emergent during steepened ESIAW wave evolution are found to be instrumental in exciting cold electron beams possessing kinetic energies a few hundred times that of the thermal electron population. This mechanism is one possible explanation for suprathermal electron bursts observed in and near auroral inverted-V events.
Clark Elizabeth A.
Seyler Charles E.
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