High energy jets in the Earth's magnetosheath: Implications for plasma dynamics and anomalous transport

Details High energy jets in the Earth's magnetosheath: Implications for plasma dynamics and anomalous transport High energy jets in the Earth's magnetosheath: Implications for plasma dynamics and anomalous transport

Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008jetpl..87..593s&link_type=abstract

JETP Letters, Volume 87, Issue 11, pp.593-599

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52.40.Hf, 52.30.-Q, 52.40.-W

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High energy density jets in the magnetosheath near the Earth magnetopause were observed by Interball-1 [1]. In this paper, we continue the investigation of this important physical phenomenon. New data provided by Cluster show that the magnetosheath kinetic energy density during more than one hour exhibits an average level and a series of peaks far exceeding the kinetic energy density in the undisturbed solar wind. This is a surprising finding because the kinetic energy of the upstream solar wind in equilibrium should be significantly diminished downstream in the magnetosheath due to plasma braking and thermalization at the bow shock. We suggest resolving the energy conservation problem by the fact that the nonequilibrium jets appear to be locally superimposed on the background equilibrium magnetosheath, and, thus, the energy balance should be settled globally on the spatial scales of the entire dayside magnetosheath. We show that both the Cluster and Interball jets are accompanied by plasma superdiffusion and suggest that they are important for the energy dissipation and plasma transport. The character of the jet-related turbulence strongly differs from that of known standard cascade models. We infer that these jets may represent the phenomenon of the general physical occurrence observed in other natural systems, such as heliosphere, astrophysical, and fusion plasmas [2-10].

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