Transverse acceleration of ions on auroral field lines

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Jan 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983eice.conf...43a&link_type=abstract

IN: Energetic ion composition in the earth's magnetosphere (A84-37001 17-46). Tokyo/Dordrecht, Terra Scientific Publishing Co./D

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Auroral Zones, Electrostatic Waves, Ion Cyclotron Radiation, Ionospheric Heating, Magnetospheric Ion Density, Particle Acceleration, Geomagnetism, Hydrogen Ions, Ion Temperature, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Oxygen Ions, Plasma Drift

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This paper examines transverse ion heating on auroral field lines associated with current-driven electrostatic ion cyclotron waves theoretically and by numerical simulations. The auroral plasma is assumed to consist of drifting electrons and stationary hydrogen and oxygen ions. Depending on the ratio of the electron drift speed to the thermal speed and the ratio of hydrogen to oxygen concentrations, preferential heating of either hydrogen or oxygen ions can take place. It is found that unless the oxygen ions are a minority species, oxygen transverse heating generally exceeds that of hydrogen ions. Theory and numerical simulations are in good agreement.

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