Propagation of whistler waves driven by fine structured ion beams in the magnetotail

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May 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....99.8647b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol 99, no. A5, p. 8647-8655

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Plasma Physics

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Boundary Layer Plasmas, Current Sheets, Electromagnetic Wave Transmission, Geomagnetic Tail, Ion Beams, Plasma Currents, Whistlers, Field Aligned Currents, Plasma Physics

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In a previous paper, which examined the propagation of low-frequency whistler waves generated by ion beams in the Earth's plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL), it was found that whistler waves driven in the PSBL are focused toward the central plasma sheet due to the global magnetotail inhomogeneities; this finding may help explain the observations of magnetic noise bursts in the tail (Burinskaya et al., 1993). In this paper the same phenomenon is examined, but this time a much more realistic model is used for the ion beam in the PSBL. While the PSBL has been modeled as a solid, homogeneous ion beams with a width of one Earth radius, observations and theoretical considerations have shown that PSBL ion beams actually have a decreasing velocity profile toward the plasma sheet and that the density of the beams within the PSBL can vary locally. We consider again the propagation and generation of electromagnetic waves but in the presence of fine structured ion beams in the PSBL. Our results show that whistler waves, generated quasi-parallel to the background magnetic field, can be trapped locally within small spatial regions where the ion beam density is enhanced compared to the density of the adjacent PSBL region. Wave spectra and nonlinear saturation mechanisms are discussed.

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