Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-07-07
AIP Conf.Proc.1039:240-245,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 1 embedded figure, to appear in Proc. of the 7th IGPP International Astrophysics Conference "Particle Acceleration an
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2982452
The acceleration of interstellar pick-up ions as well as solar wind species has been observed at a multitude of interplanetary (IP) shocks by different spacecraft. This paper expands upon previous work modeling the phase space distributions of accelerated ions associated with the shock event encountered on day 292 of 1991 by the Ulysses mission at 4.5 AU. A kinetic Monte Carlo simulation is employed here to model the diffusive acceleration process. This exposition presents recent developments pertaining to the incorporation into the simulation of the diffusive characteristics incurred by field line wandering (FLW), according to the work of Giacalone and Jokipii. For a pure field-line wandering construct, it is determined that the upstream spatial ramp scales are too short to accommodate the HI-SCALE flux increases for 200 keV protons, and that the distribution function for H+ somewhat underpopulates the combined SWICS/HI-SCALE spectra at the shock. This contrasts our earlier theory/data comparison where it was demonstrated that diffusive transport in highly turbulent fields according to kinetic theory can successfully account for both the proton distributions and upstream ramp scales, using a single turbulence parameter. The principal conclusion here is that, in a FLW scenario, the transport of ions across the mean magnetic field is slightly less efficient than is required to effectively trap energetic ions within a few Larmor radii of the shock layer and thereby precipitate efficient acceleration. This highlights the contrast between ion transport in highly turbulent shock environs and remote, less-disturbed interplanetary regions.
Baring Matthew G.
Summerlin Errol J.
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