The development of shell-like distributions from newborn cometary ions

Details The development of shell-like distributions from newborn cometary ions The development of shell-like distributions from newborn cometary ions

Dec 1986

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Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, Dec. 1986, p. 1364-1367. Research supported by the Los Alamos National L

Physics

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Comets, Computerized Simulation, Ion Distribution, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Solar Wind, Free Energy, Ion Injection, Ionization

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One-dimensional hybrid computer simulations that are spatially homogeneous are used to investigate the evolution of newborn cometary ions that interact self-consistently with the solar wind. Cometary ions injected at a constant rate are scattered by the growing electromagnetic fluctuations resulting from the associated free energy, and the scattering at relatively low fluctuating field amplitudes leads to shell-like velocity distributions which subtend about 4 pi in solid angle but which have small spread in speed. Shell-like distributions are found to occur when the ion injection rate is relatively slow, when the injected ion mass is relatively light, and when the energy density of the fluctuating magnetic fields exhibits linear growth.

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