Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jgra..11506105s&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 115, Issue A6, CiteID A06105
Physics
Plasma Physics
Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Radio Emissions, Space Plasma Physics: Kinetic Waves And Instabilities, Space Plasma Physics: Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984), Interplanetary Physics: Plasma Waves And Turbulence, Electromagnetics: Plasmas
Scientific paper
It is by now well known that electron beams play an important role in generating radio emissions such as type II and type III radio bursts, commonly observed by spacecraft in the interplanetary medium. Electron beams streaming back from Earth's bow shock into the solar wind have been proposed as a possible source for the electron plasma waves observed by spacecraft in the electron foreshock. Recent observations suggest that during the natural evolution of the foreshock plasma, multiple electron beams could be injected over a period of time, losing their individual identity to coalesce into a single beam. In this work, we use an electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) code “KEMPO 1D, adapted” to simulate two electron beams that are injected into a plasma at different times. The first beam disturbs the background plasma and generates Langmuir waves by electron beam-plasma interaction. Subsequently, another beam is inserted into the system and interacts with the first one and with the driven Langmuir waves to produce electromagnetic radiation. The results of our simulation show that the first beam can produce electrostatic harmonics of the plasma frequency, while the second beam intensifies the emission at the harmonics that is produced by the first one. The behavior of the second beam is strongly determined by the preexisting Langmuir wave electric fields. The simulations also show, as a result of the interaction between both beams, a clear nonlinear frequency shift of the harmonic modes as well as an increase of electromagnetic and kinetic energies of the wave-particle system.
Alves Maria Virginia
Gaelzer R.
Simões J. R. F.
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