Electrostatic waves due to field-aligned electron beams in the low-latitude boundary layer

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Mar 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jgr....97.3169p&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A3, March 1, 1992, p. 3169-3183.

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Ampte (Satellites), Boundary Layer Plasmas, Electron Beams, Electrostatic Waves, Plasma Waves, Electron Density (Concentration), Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Ion Density (Concentration), Magnetosheath, Wave Propagation, Wave-Particle Interactions

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Mass-resolved ion, electron, and plasma wave data obtained from several low-latitude boundary layer (LLBL) crossings by the AMPTE CCE satellite are analyzed. The data clearly separate the LLBL from the adjacent magnetosheath and magnetosphere. Attention was focused on wave-particle interactions involving electrons. Electron beams were found to be present in the LLBL during the southward interplanetary magnetic field, along with a simultaneous enhancement of electrostatic waves with parallel polarization. Linear theory analysis shows that for plasma conditions in the LLBL, electron beams are unstable to electrostatic waves that propagate parallel to the local magnetic field, in agreement with observations. A numerical simulation study of the beam-plasma interaction in the LLBL shows that the instability saturates by thermalization of the beam but that a beamlike structure can still remain in the electron distribution for certain initial parameters. It is suggested that peaks in the electron velocity distribution function may be found in the LLBL away from the beam source region.

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