Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004a%26a...419..793a&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.419, p.793-799 (2004)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Acceleration Of Particles, Plasmas
Scientific paper
We investigate the interaction of O+ ions with a one-dimensional potential well, using Hamiltonian formulation. Heating of plasma originating in the terrestrial ionosphere plays a catalytic role in solar-driven magnetic storms, which dissipate energy globally within the magnetosphere of the earth. An interesting candidate for ionospheric plasma heating is a potential well located at auroral arcs in the high-latitude magnetosphere. We consider a potential with an exponential form, having a characteristic length Lx. The oxygen ions drift towards the auroral arc in the presence of a constant magnetic field Bz and a constant electric field Ey. The orbits of individual ions for different initial conditions - phase angle and kinetic energy - are traced. Our results show that, depending upon the initial conditions, test particles can be either accelerated or decelerated. Furthermore, we perform a parametric study for the interactions of mono-energetic and Maxwellian type of initial ion distribution - using random phase angle injection of the particles - with respect to our main model parameter, the characteristic length of the potential Lx. We conclude that for characteristic lengths comparable to twice the ion gyroradius, the O+ population is accelerated.
Anastasiadis Anastasios
Daglis Ioannis A.
Tsironis C.
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