PAPERS PUBLISHED PRIOR TO 2015
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PAPERS PUBLISHED PRIOR TO 2015
Modification of the loss cone for energetic particles
Porazik, P., J. R. Johnson, I. Kaganovich, and E. Sanchez Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, (2014) doi:10.1002/2014GL061869. The optimal pitch angle which maximizes the penetration distance, along the magnetic field, of relativistic charged particles injected from the midplane of an axisymmetric field is investigated analytically and numerically. Higher-order terms of the magnetic moment invariant are necessary to correctly determine the mirror point of trapped energetic particles, and therefore the loss cone. The modified loss cone resulting from the inclusion of higher-order terms is no longer entirely defined by the pitch angle but also by the phase angle of the particle at the point of injection. The optimal orientation of the injection has a nonzero component perpendicular to the magnetic field line, and is in the plane tangential to the flux surface. Numerical integration of particle orbits were carried out for a relativistic electron in a dipole field, showing agreement with analytic expressions. The results are relevant to experiments, which are concerned with injection of relativistic beams into the atmosphere from aboard a spacecraft in the magnetosphere. |
A model for falling-tone chorus
A. R. Soto-Chavez, G. Wang, A. Bhattacharjee, G. Y. Fu and H. M. Smith Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (2014) Motivated by the fact that geomagnetic field inhomogeneity is weak close to the chorus generation region and the observational evidence that falling-tone chorus tend to have large oblique angles of propagation, we propose that falling-tone chorus start as a marginally unstable mode. The marginally unstable mode requires the presence of a relatively large damping, which has its origins in the Landau damping of oblique waves in this collisionless environment. A marginally unstable mode produces phase-space structures that release energy and produce wave chirping. We show that the present model produces results in reasonable agreement with observations. |
Linear mode conversion of Langmuir/z-mode waves to radiation in plasmas with various magnetic field strength
Eun-Hwa Kim, Iver. H. Cairns and Jay R. Johnson Phys. Plasmas 20, 122103 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4837515 Linear mode conversion of Langmuir/z waves to electromagnetic radiation near the plasma and upper hybrid frequency in the presence of density gradients is potentially relevant to type II and III solar radio bursts, ionospheric radar experiments, pulsars, and continuum radiation for planetary magnetospheres. Here, we study mode conversion in warm, magnetized plasmasusing a numerical electron fluid simulation code when the density gradient has a wide range of angle, δ, to the ambient magnetic field, B 0, for a range of incident Langmuir/z wavevectors. Our results include: (1) Left-handed polarized ordinary (oL) and right-handed polarized extraordinary (xR) mode waves are produced in various ranges of δ for Ω0 = (ωL/c)1 / 3(ωc e/ω) < 1.5, whereωc e is the (angular) electron cyclotron frequency, ω is the angular wave frequency, L is the length scale of the (linear) density gradient, and c is the speed of light; (2) the xR mode is produced most strongly in the range, 40° < δ < 60°, for intermediately magnetized plasmas with Ω0 = 1.0 and 1.5, while it is produced over a wider range, 0° ≤ δ ≤ 90°, for weakly magnetized plasmas with Ω0 = 0.1 and 0.7; (3) the maximum total conversion efficiencies for wave power from the Langmuir/z mode to radiation are of order 50%–99% and the corresponding energyconversion efficiencies are 5%–14% (depending on the adiabatic index γ and β = T e/m e c 2, where T e is the electron temperature and m e is the electron) for various Ω0; (4) the mode conversion window becomes wider as Ω0 and δ increase. Hence, the results in this paper confirm that linear mode conversion under these conditions can explain the weak total circularpolarization of interplanetary type II and III solar radio bursts because a strong xR mode can be generated via linear mode conversion near δ ∼ 45°. |
Linear dispersion relation for the mirror instability in context of the gyrokinetic theory
Peter Porazik and Jay R. Johnson
Phys. Plasmas 20, 104501 (2013); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4822339
The linear dispersion relation for the mirror instability is discussed in context of the gyrokinetic theory. The objective is to provide a coherent view of different kinetic approaches used to derive the dispersion relation. The method based on gyrocenter phase space transformations is adopted in order to display the origin and ordering of various terms.
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Magnetic reconnection process in transient coaxial helicity injection
F. Ebrahimi, E. B. Hooper, C. R. Sovinec, and R. Raman
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Time-dependent 3D magnetohydrodynamic pulsar magnetospheres: oblique rotators
Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Anatoly Spitkovsky and Jason G. Li
MNRAS (August 01, 2013) 435 (1): L1-L5. doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slt076
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