Theory and simulations of broadband electrostatic noise in the geomagnetic tail

Details Theory and simulations of broadband electrostatic noise in the geomagnetic tail Theory and simulations of broadband electrostatic noise in the geomagnetic tail

Jun 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....91.6833a&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, June 1, 1986, p. 6833-6844.

Physics

54

Electromagnetic Noise, Electrostatics, Geomagnetic Tail, Space Plasmas, Broadband, Ion Cyclotron Radiation, Plasma Layers, Time Response, Velocity Distribution

Scientific paper

The excitation mechanism for broadband electrostatic noise (BEN) and the effects of BEN particles in the geomagnetic tail are examined using the linear analysis theory and particle simulations. The linear theory for electrostatic instabilities is discussed. The plasma sheet particle population is simulated using counter-streaming cold ion beams, and warm ions and electrons. The ion-ion instability, ion-acoustic mode, and the electrostatic ion cyclotron harmonic waves are studied. The velocity distributions, electric field intensity, and electron plasma waves for the plasma sheet boundary layer are evaluated. The frequency wave spectrum and particle distributions are computed and analyzed. The conditions for the two simulations, which differ only in beam ion drift speed, are described; it is observed that in the first simulation the dominate modes propagate parallel to the magnetic field and in the second simulation the propagation modes are oblique. The simulation data reveal that when beam temperature is smaller than plasma sheet temperature ion-acoustic and ion-ion instabilities grow to large amplitudes heating both electrons and ions. The data are compared to ISEE-1 observations and good correlation is obtained.

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