Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984jgr....89.2251b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 89, April 1, 1984, p. 2251-2266. Research sponsored by the U.S. Departmen
Physics
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Auroral Arcs, Ion Beams, Ionospheric Ion Density, Particle Acceleration, Plasma Layers, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Lorentz Force, Magnetic Flux, Maxwell-Boltzmann Density Function, Particle Trajectories, Pitch (Inclination)
Scientific paper
Magnetized test ions are subjected to acceleration through a numerically simulated oblique double layer in order to determine whether they emerge with velocity vectors aligned with or oblique to the ambient magnetic field. A criterion for oblique alignment, depending on the double-layer parameters and on the external magnetization, is obtained. When it is applied to observed and theoretical auroral double layers, this criterion predicts that accelerated heavy ions will be substantially less magnetic field aligned than will accelerated hydrogen ions, thus suggesting auroral double layers as a source of high-energy ion conics. Test particle simulations are also used to investigate the perpendicular heating of ions at low altitudes by the electric fields associated with moving auroral arcs. The rapid motion of small-scale structures in the arcs is suggested as a source of low-energy conical ion distributions, and the slow drifts of the entire arc forms are inferred to heat ionospheric ions.
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