Physics
Scientific paper
May 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agusmsm33c..04k&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2007, abstract #SM33C-04
Physics
2716 Energetic Particles: Precipitating, 2722 Forecasting (7924, 7964), 2753 Numerical Modeling, 2784 Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions, 2788 Magnetic Storms And Substorms (7954)
Scientific paper
A 2.5 dimensional hybrid model of massless fluid electrons and kinetic ions which also includes a simple ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling is used to investigate the impacts of interplanetary shocks and high energy particles presumably resulting from magnetic storms on the magnetosphere. The code is structured to model the magnetosphere dynamics of the arth-Solar wind system by utilizing a finite element mesh specifically tailored to magnetosphere's regions. It spans many hundred Earth radii in each direction (upstream, downstream, dawn and dusk). Realistic parameters characteristic of solar wind, its IMF and geomagnetic field are used. The code has been tested by its ability to predicting a magnetosphere by nitializing a dipole at equilibrium with a flow subjected to an incoming solar wind with an IMF. The tests revealed generation of a steady state bow shock, as well as dayside reconnection (for southward IMF) as well as a tail sheet formation. The interplanetary shock is generated by a sudden enhancement of the incoming IMF by an order of magnitude. This act introduced a fast MHD shock which propagated downstream and collided with the bow shock. This collision resulted not only in a steep rise in density and temperature of the bow shock, but also in the tail sheet region as the shock propagated downstream. The densities and temperatures, though, eventually relaxed to what are normal bow shock and tail values as he fast shock left the simulation domain. The sharp rise in the tail density which is insulated by geomagnetic field lines, can only be a result of kinetic effects. The results are analyzed and the role of different kinetic effects along with diagnostics discussed. The high energy flux of particles are simulated by injecting Kev to Mev range particles. These particles are raced as their trajectories are stored. The deflection angle of the incoming particles versus their incident energies and their incident latitudes are obtained for the cases in which the incident IMF points north versus southward. Both these investigations are aimed at better understanding of the transport of energy and momentum by geomagnetic storms through their resulting interplanetary shock waves and high energy particles into the inner magnetosphere. This work is supported by the NSF-ATM-0651690.
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