Local Excitation of Whistler Mode Waves and Associated Langmuir Waves at Dayside Reconnection Regions
Abstract
In the Earth’s dayside reconnection boundary layer, whistler mode waves coincide with magnetic field openings and the formation of the resultant anisotropic electrons. Depending on the energy range of anisotropic electrons, whistlers can grow at frequencies in the upper and/or lower band. Observations show that whistler mode waves modulate Langmuir wave amplitude as they propagate toward the X line. Observations of whistler mode wave phase and Langmuir waves packets, as well as coincident electron measurements, reveal that whistler mode waves can accelerate electrons via Landau resonance at locations where E|| is antiparallel to the wave propagation direction. The accelerated electrons produce localized beams, which subsequently drive the periodically modulated Langmuir waves. The close association of those two wave modes reveals the microscale electron dynamics in the exhaust region, and the proposed mechanism could potentially be applied to explain the modulation events observed in planetary magnetospheres and in the solar wind.
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Boston Univ., MA (United States)
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
- Univ. Paris-Sud, (France)
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
- Southwest Research Inst. (SwRI), San Antonio, TX (United States)
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
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- SC0010578
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- Geophysical Research Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 45; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 0094-8276
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- American Geophysical Union
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- United States
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- English
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- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Geology
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Li, Jinxing, Bortnik, Jacob, An, Xin, Li, Wen, Russell, Christopher T., Zhou, Meng, Berchem, Jean, Zhao, Cong, Wang, Shan, Torbert, Roy B., Le Contel, Olivier, Ergun, Robert E., Lindqvist, Per-Arne, Pollock, Craig J., and Burch, James L. Local Excitation of Whistler Mode Waves and Associated Langmuir Waves at Dayside Reconnection Regions. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1029/2018gl078287.
Li, Jinxing, Bortnik, Jacob, An, Xin, Li, Wen, Russell, Christopher T., Zhou, Meng, Berchem, Jean, Zhao, Cong, Wang, Shan, Torbert, Roy B., Le Contel, Olivier, Ergun, Robert E., Lindqvist, Per-Arne, Pollock, Craig J., & Burch, James L. Local Excitation of Whistler Mode Waves and Associated Langmuir Waves at Dayside Reconnection Regions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl078287
Li, Jinxing, Bortnik, Jacob, An, Xin, Li, Wen, Russell, Christopher T., Zhou, Meng, Berchem, Jean, Zhao, Cong, Wang, Shan, Torbert, Roy B., Le Contel, Olivier, Ergun, Robert E., Lindqvist, Per-Arne, Pollock, Craig J., and Burch, James L. Mon .
"Local Excitation of Whistler Mode Waves and Associated Langmuir Waves at Dayside Reconnection Regions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gl078287. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1539746.
@article{osti_1539746,
title = {Local Excitation of Whistler Mode Waves and Associated Langmuir Waves at Dayside Reconnection Regions},
author = {Li, Jinxing and Bortnik, Jacob and An, Xin and Li, Wen and Russell, Christopher T. and Zhou, Meng and Berchem, Jean and Zhao, Cong and Wang, Shan and Torbert, Roy B. and Le Contel, Olivier and Ergun, Robert E. and Lindqvist, Per-Arne and Pollock, Craig J. and Burch, James L.},
abstractNote = {In the Earth’s dayside reconnection boundary layer, whistler mode waves coincide with magnetic field openings and the formation of the resultant anisotropic electrons. Depending on the energy range of anisotropic electrons, whistlers can grow at frequencies in the upper and/or lower band. Observations show that whistler mode waves modulate Langmuir wave amplitude as they propagate toward the X line. Observations of whistler mode wave phase and Langmuir waves packets, as well as coincident electron measurements, reveal that whistler mode waves can accelerate electrons via Landau resonance at locations where E|| is antiparallel to the wave propagation direction. The accelerated electrons produce localized beams, which subsequently drive the periodically modulated Langmuir waves. The close association of those two wave modes reveals the microscale electron dynamics in the exhaust region, and the proposed mechanism could potentially be applied to explain the modulation events observed in planetary magnetospheres and in the solar wind.},
doi = {10.1029/2018gl078287},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
number = 17,
volume = 45,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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