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Title: Whistler wave generation by anisotropic tail electrons during asymmetric magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory

Abstract

Whistler wave generation near the magnetospheric separatrix during reconnection at the dayside magnetopause is studied with data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The dispersion relation of the whistler mode is measured for the first time near the reconnection region in space, which shows that whistler waves propagate nearly parallel to the magnetic field line. A linear analysis indicates that the whistler waves are generated by temperature anisotropy in the electron tail population. This is caused by loss of electrons with a high velocity parallel to the magnetic field to the exhaust region. There is a positive correlation between activities of whistler waves and the lower-hybrid drift instability (LHDI) both in laboratory and space, indicating the enhanced transport by LHDI may be responsible for the loss of electrons with a high parallel velocity.

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Publication Date:
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-09CH11466
Research Org.:
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
U. S. Department of Energy
Keywords:
Whistler wave; Dispersion relation; Temperature anisotropy; Magnetic reconnection; Lower‐hybrid drift instability
OSTI Identifier:
1562001
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11578/1562001

Citation Formats

Yoo, Jongsoo, Jara-almonte, J, Yerger, Evan, Wang, Shan, Qian, Tony, Le, Ari, Ji, Hantao, Yamada, Masaaki, Fox, William, Kim, Eun-Hwa, Chen, Li-Jen, and Gershman, Daniel. Whistler wave generation by anisotropic tail electrons during asymmetric magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.11578/1562001.
Yoo, Jongsoo, Jara-almonte, J, Yerger, Evan, Wang, Shan, Qian, Tony, Le, Ari, Ji, Hantao, Yamada, Masaaki, Fox, William, Kim, Eun-Hwa, Chen, Li-Jen, & Gershman, Daniel. Whistler wave generation by anisotropic tail electrons during asymmetric magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.11578/1562001
Yoo, Jongsoo, Jara-almonte, J, Yerger, Evan, Wang, Shan, Qian, Tony, Le, Ari, Ji, Hantao, Yamada, Masaaki, Fox, William, Kim, Eun-Hwa, Chen, Li-Jen, and Gershman, Daniel. 2018. "Whistler wave generation by anisotropic tail electrons during asymmetric magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.11578/1562001. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1562001. Pub date:Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018
@article{osti_1562001,
title = {Whistler wave generation by anisotropic tail electrons during asymmetric magnetic reconnection in space and laboratory},
author = {Yoo, Jongsoo and Jara-almonte, J and Yerger, Evan and Wang, Shan and Qian, Tony and Le, Ari and Ji, Hantao and Yamada, Masaaki and Fox, William and Kim, Eun-Hwa and Chen, Li-Jen and Gershman, Daniel},
abstractNote = {Whistler wave generation near the magnetospheric separatrix during reconnection at the dayside magnetopause is studied with data from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The dispersion relation of the whistler mode is measured for the first time near the reconnection region in space, which shows that whistler waves propagate nearly parallel to the magnetic field line. A linear analysis indicates that the whistler waves are generated by temperature anisotropy in the electron tail population. This is caused by loss of electrons with a high velocity parallel to the magnetic field to the exhaust region. There is a positive correlation between activities of whistler waves and the lower-hybrid drift instability (LHDI) both in laboratory and space, indicating the enhanced transport by LHDI may be responsible for the loss of electrons with a high parallel velocity.},
doi = {10.11578/1562001},
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number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {8}
}

Works referencing / citing this record:

Whistler Wave Generation by Anisotropic Tail Electrons During Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Laboratory
journal, August 2018