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Title: Shock-Induced Disappearance and Subsequent Recovery of Plasmaspheric Hiss: Coordinated Observations of RBSP, THEMIS, and POES Satellite

Abstract

Here, plasmaspheric hiss is an extremely low frequency whistler–mode emission contributing significantly to the loss of radiation belt electrons. There are two main competing mechanisms for the generation of plasmaspheric hiss: excitation by local instability in the outer plasmasphere and origination from chorus outside the plasmasphere. Here on the basis of the analysis of an event of shock–induced disappearance and subsequent recovery of plasmaspheric hiss observed by RBSP, THEMIS, and POES missions, we attempt to identify its dominant generation mechanism. In the preshock plasmasphere, the local electron instability was relatively weak and the hiss waves with bidirectional Poynting fluxes mainly originated from the dayside chorus waves. On arrival of the shock, the removal of preexisting dayside chorus and the insignificant variation of low–frequency wave instability caused the prompt disappearance of hiss waves. In the next few hours, the local instability in the plasmasphere was greatly enhanced due to the substorm injection of hot electrons. The enhancement of local instability likely played a dominant role in the temporary recovery of hiss with unidirectional Poynting fluxes. These temporarily recovered hiss waves were generated near the equator and then propagated toward higher latitudes. In contrast, both the enhancement of local instability and themore » recurrence of prenoon chorus contributed to the substantial recovery of hiss with bidirectional Poynting fluxes.« less

Authors:
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  1. Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Astronautical Science and Technology, Hefei (China)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1440489
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-31420
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380; TRN: US1900751
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Physics; radiation belt; plasmaspheric hiss; chorus; wave-particle interaction; substorm injection; interplanetary shock

Citation Formats

Liu, Nigang, Su, Zhenpeng, Gao, Zhonglei, Reeves, Geoffrey D., Zheng, Huinan, Wang, Yuming, and Wang, Shui. Shock-Induced Disappearance and Subsequent Recovery of Plasmaspheric Hiss: Coordinated Observations of RBSP, THEMIS, and POES Satellite. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1002/2017JA024470.
Liu, Nigang, Su, Zhenpeng, Gao, Zhonglei, Reeves, Geoffrey D., Zheng, Huinan, Wang, Yuming, & Wang, Shui. Shock-Induced Disappearance and Subsequent Recovery of Plasmaspheric Hiss: Coordinated Observations of RBSP, THEMIS, and POES Satellite. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024470
Liu, Nigang, Su, Zhenpeng, Gao, Zhonglei, Reeves, Geoffrey D., Zheng, Huinan, Wang, Yuming, and Wang, Shui. Wed . "Shock-Induced Disappearance and Subsequent Recovery of Plasmaspheric Hiss: Coordinated Observations of RBSP, THEMIS, and POES Satellite". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024470. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1440489.
@article{osti_1440489,
title = {Shock-Induced Disappearance and Subsequent Recovery of Plasmaspheric Hiss: Coordinated Observations of RBSP, THEMIS, and POES Satellite},
author = {Liu, Nigang and Su, Zhenpeng and Gao, Zhonglei and Reeves, Geoffrey D. and Zheng, Huinan and Wang, Yuming and Wang, Shui},
abstractNote = {Here, plasmaspheric hiss is an extremely low frequency whistler–mode emission contributing significantly to the loss of radiation belt electrons. There are two main competing mechanisms for the generation of plasmaspheric hiss: excitation by local instability in the outer plasmasphere and origination from chorus outside the plasmasphere. Here on the basis of the analysis of an event of shock–induced disappearance and subsequent recovery of plasmaspheric hiss observed by RBSP, THEMIS, and POES missions, we attempt to identify its dominant generation mechanism. In the preshock plasmasphere, the local electron instability was relatively weak and the hiss waves with bidirectional Poynting fluxes mainly originated from the dayside chorus waves. On arrival of the shock, the removal of preexisting dayside chorus and the insignificant variation of low–frequency wave instability caused the prompt disappearance of hiss waves. In the next few hours, the local instability in the plasmasphere was greatly enhanced due to the substorm injection of hot electrons. The enhancement of local instability likely played a dominant role in the temporary recovery of hiss with unidirectional Poynting fluxes. These temporarily recovered hiss waves were generated near the equator and then propagated toward higher latitudes. In contrast, both the enhancement of local instability and the recurrence of prenoon chorus contributed to the substantial recovery of hiss with bidirectional Poynting fluxes.},
doi = {10.1002/2017JA024470},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics},
number = 10,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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