Reply to comment by Remya et al. on “Effects of electron temperature anisotropy on proton mirror instability evolution”
Abstract
In the comment to our paper, Remya et al. (2017) state that we conclude that their theory is incorrect; however, no such conclusion is in our paper. In fact, as stated in their paper, we agree with their theory that shows the impact of heavy ions and electron temperature anisotropy on the competition of the ion anisotropy instabilities. While their linear theory is correct, our paper focused on the nonlinear evolution, where one needs to be careful in assuming a given electron anisotropy, because electrons themselves can be unstable to the electron whistler instability, which quickly lowers the anisotropy to levels where, in the absence of heavy ions, it is not sufficient to significantly change the balance between proton cyclotron and mirror mode. We agree that the electron whistler instability will not lead to complete isotropization of the electrons but only lower it to the instability threshold. In the parameter regime addressed, this limited isotropization will still eliminate the dominance of mirror mode and restore the usual dominance of the proton cyclotron mode, so our point still stands. Our simulations showed an isotropization of the electrons beyond the electron whistler threshold. In this paper, we will show that there aremore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Lab. for Atmospheric and Space Physics
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States). Dept. of Physics. Space Science Center
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1466258
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1402340
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0006670; AGS-1056898; PHY-1229408
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-9380
- Publisher:
- American Geophysical Union
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; mirror instability; electron whistler instability; electron temperature anisotropy
Citation Formats
Ahmadi, Narges, Germaschewski, Kai, and Raeder, Joachim. Reply to comment by Remya et al. on “Effects of electron temperature anisotropy on proton mirror instability evolution”. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1002/2016JA023452.
Ahmadi, Narges, Germaschewski, Kai, & Raeder, Joachim. Reply to comment by Remya et al. on “Effects of electron temperature anisotropy on proton mirror instability evolution”. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA023452
Ahmadi, Narges, Germaschewski, Kai, and Raeder, Joachim. Wed .
"Reply to comment by Remya et al. on “Effects of electron temperature anisotropy on proton mirror instability evolution”". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA023452. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1466258.
@article{osti_1466258,
title = {Reply to comment by Remya et al. on “Effects of electron temperature anisotropy on proton mirror instability evolution”},
author = {Ahmadi, Narges and Germaschewski, Kai and Raeder, Joachim},
abstractNote = {In the comment to our paper, Remya et al. (2017) state that we conclude that their theory is incorrect; however, no such conclusion is in our paper. In fact, as stated in their paper, we agree with their theory that shows the impact of heavy ions and electron temperature anisotropy on the competition of the ion anisotropy instabilities. While their linear theory is correct, our paper focused on the nonlinear evolution, where one needs to be careful in assuming a given electron anisotropy, because electrons themselves can be unstable to the electron whistler instability, which quickly lowers the anisotropy to levels where, in the absence of heavy ions, it is not sufficient to significantly change the balance between proton cyclotron and mirror mode. We agree that the electron whistler instability will not lead to complete isotropization of the electrons but only lower it to the instability threshold. In the parameter regime addressed, this limited isotropization will still eliminate the dominance of mirror mode and restore the usual dominance of the proton cyclotron mode, so our point still stands. Our simulations showed an isotropization of the electrons beyond the electron whistler threshold. In this paper, we will show that there are two contributing reasons: The nonlinear evolution of the mirror instability affects the electron anisotropy, as does unphysical numerical heating due to the limited resolution of a particle-in-cell simulation. Finally, we further discuss the coexistence of electron whistler instability and mirror instability, and we agree that both instabilities can be present in the magnetosheath.},
doi = {10.1002/2016JA023452},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics},
number = 1,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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