Proton Core Heating and Beam Formation via Parametrically Unstable Alfvén-Cyclotron Waves

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Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008phrvl.100l5003a&link_type=abstract

Physical Review Letters, vol. 100, Issue 12, id. 125003

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Nonlinear Phenomena: Waves, Wave Propagation, And Other Interactions, Hybrid Methods, Solar Wind Plasma, Sources Of Solar Wind

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Vlasov theory and one-dimensional hybrid simulations are used to study the effects that compressible fluctuations driven by parametric instabilities Alfvén-cyclotron waves have on proton velocity distributions. Field-aligned proton beams are generated during the saturation phase of the wave-particle interaction, with a drift speed which is slightly greater than the Alfvén speed and is maintained until the end of the simulation. The main part of the distribution becomes anisotropic due to phase mixing as is typically observed in the velocity distributions measured in the fast solar wind. We identify the key instabilities and also find that, even in the parameter regime where fluid theory appears to be appropriate, strong kinetic effects still prevail.

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