التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Energy Transport and Conversion Within Earth's Supercritical Bow Shock: The Role of Intense Lower‐Hybrid Whistler Waves. |
| المؤلفون: |
Hull, Arthur J., Muschietti, Laurent, Agapitov, Oleksiy V., Chaston, Christopher C., Le Contel, Olivier, Lindqvist, Per‐Arne |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics; May2024, Vol. 129 Issue 5, p1-24, 24p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ENERGY conversion, LANDAU damping, MACH number, WAVE energy, PLASMA heating, COLLISIONLESS plasmas |
| مستخلص: |
Detailed analysis of a high Mach number quasiperpendicular Earth bow shock crossing by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft fleet reveal that lower‐hybrid (LH) whistler waves generated in the shock foot region transport energy predominately along the shock surface and slightly toward the shock ramp in the shock normal incidence frame, where wave energy accumulates and is dissipated into the plasma. This suggests the LH whistlers play an integral role in energy reconfiguration at high Mach number collisionless shocks with ramifications to plasma heating. The multipoint observations are used to quantify the wave characteristic parameters (via interferometry), Poynting fluxes, and energy conversion rates D, and to assess their scale dependencies and spatial and temporal properties. The whistler associated energy transport and conversion are found to depend on scale and location within the layer. High‐frequency electrostatic waves yield largest values of D. However, the dominant net energy exchange contribution is from the LH whistlers. In the foot spatially temporally coherent net energy exchange from the plasma to whistlers is observed, whereas deeper in the ramp net wave energy dissipation to the plasma is observed exhibiting significant space‐time variability. These results are consistent with the modified two stream instability driven by the relative drift between reflected ions and electrons as the mechanism for wave growth in the foot. Owing to strong electron heating, whistler energy dissipation in the ramp is attributed to Landau damping, which out‐competes the destabilizing effect of the reflected ion and electron drift. Key Points: Whistler waves near lower‐hybrid frequencies play an integral role in the reconfiguration of energy at high Mach number collisionless shocksWhistler mediated energy transport and exchange depends on scale and location within the layerWhistlers transport energy along the shock and slightly toward the ramp where it gets dissipated into electron heating via Landau damping [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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