Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock
Abstract
Magnetic reconnection in quasi-parallel shocks, relevant to the Earth’s bow shock, is studied by means of two-dimensional full particle-in-cell simulations. As the Alfvénic Mach number increases, the propagation direction of the waves excited in the transition region changes, and the shock becomes more turbulent with more reconnection sites. In the higher Mach number shock, abundant electron-only reconnection sites are generated with scales on the order of the ion skin depth or less. Non-reconnecting current sheets can also generate electron jets and energy dissipation can occur there as well. However, non-reconnecting current sheets with the magnetic field reversal typically show a smaller energy dissipation rate than reconnecting current sheets. In the shock transition region, two types of waves are responsible for driving reconnection: one has a wavelength around three ion skin depths (di), and the other has a wavelength less than 1 di. Here, electron and ion distribution functions show that in regions where the former type of waves is excited, there are two ion beams and a single-peaked electron distribution. In contrast, in regions where the latter type of waves is excited, there are multiple electron and ion beams. The waves propagating obliquely to the magnetic field bend the magneticmore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
- Univ. of Bergen (Norway); Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Research Council of Norway
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1770774
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1664472
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0016278; AGS-1619584; AGS-1552142; 80NSSC18K1369; 223252/F50
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 27; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Magnetic reconnection; Magnetospheric dynamics; Kinetic waves; Foreshock; Wave mechanics; Particle-in-cell method; Fluid mechanics; Shock waves; Thermodynamic systems
Citation Formats
Bessho, Naoki, Chen, L. -J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., and Ng, J. Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1063/5.0012443.
Bessho, Naoki, Chen, L. -J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., & Ng, J. Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0012443
Bessho, Naoki, Chen, L. -J., Wang, S., Hesse, M., Wilson, L. B., and Ng, J. Fri .
"Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0012443. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1770774.
@article{osti_1770774,
title = {Magnetic reconnection and kinetic waves generated in the Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock},
author = {Bessho, Naoki and Chen, L. -J. and Wang, S. and Hesse, M. and Wilson, L. B. and Ng, J.},
abstractNote = {Magnetic reconnection in quasi-parallel shocks, relevant to the Earth’s bow shock, is studied by means of two-dimensional full particle-in-cell simulations. As the Alfvénic Mach number increases, the propagation direction of the waves excited in the transition region changes, and the shock becomes more turbulent with more reconnection sites. In the higher Mach number shock, abundant electron-only reconnection sites are generated with scales on the order of the ion skin depth or less. Non-reconnecting current sheets can also generate electron jets and energy dissipation can occur there as well. However, non-reconnecting current sheets with the magnetic field reversal typically show a smaller energy dissipation rate than reconnecting current sheets. In the shock transition region, two types of waves are responsible for driving reconnection: one has a wavelength around three ion skin depths (di), and the other has a wavelength less than 1 di. Here, electron and ion distribution functions show that in regions where the former type of waves is excited, there are two ion beams and a single-peaked electron distribution. In contrast, in regions where the latter type of waves is excited, there are multiple electron and ion beams. The waves propagating obliquely to the magnetic field bend the magnetic field lines, and magnetic reconnection occurs where oppositely directed field lines come into contact.},
doi = {10.1063/5.0012443},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 9,
volume = 27,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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