Three-dimensional structure of electron holes driven by an electron beam

Details Three-dimensional structure of electron holes driven by an electron beam Three-dimensional structure of electron holes driven by an electron beam

Aug 2000

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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 27, Issue 16, p. 2469-2472

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Ionosphere: Auroral Ionosphere, Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Waves And Instabilities, Space Plasma Physics: Numerical Simulation Studies

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Using 3-D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations we studied the structure and temporal behavior of electron holes (e-holes) in a magnetized plasma driven by an electron beam. When e-holes are fully evolved from high-frequency waves in a time of about a few tens of electron plasma periods, most of the wave energy in the plasma resides in them. Parallel to the ambient magnetic field Bo, the potential distribution of an e-hole is approximately a Gaussian, and the scalelength z is only a few Debye lengths when determined by the effective temperature of the beam-modified electron distribution function. Transverse to Bo, the potential distribution tends to have a flat top, which makes it difficult to fit a Gaussian distribution, but the scalelengths at which the potential decays in the transverse directions (x and z) are found to be only slightly longer than z. The passages of electron holes monitored at several points in the simulation volume has the signature of bipolar parallel electric field and unipolar perpendicular electric-field pulses as measured from FAST and POLAR. The eventual decay of e-holes is accompanied by the generation of lower hybrid (h) waves.

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