Simulation of shell like heavy ion distributions downstream of the bow shock

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Jul 1994

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Advances in Space Research, Volume 14, Issue 7, p. 35-38.

Computer Science

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The behavior of heavy solar wind ions (He2+,O6+) at the bow shock is studied using one-dimensional electromagnetic hybrid computer simulations and multiple-ion Rankine-Hugoniot relations. Starting as a synchronous upstream flow of different ion species protons and heavy ions jump to different downstream velocities at the bowshock. Three significant downstream regions are found: (i) Immediately after the shock the differential velocity between the protons and the heavy ions generates coherent pickup of the heavy ion minor component, (ii) in the intermediate downstream region pitch-angle scattering transforms the heavy beam within a few heavy ion gyrations to a shell-like distribution, (iii) in the far downstream region energy diffusion thermalizes the distribution become Maxwellian. Though in region (ii) the heavy ion distributions are unstable their contribution to the downstream magnetic wave spectrum is unimportant.

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