Effects of Field-Aligned Cold Plasma Density Filaments on the Fine Structure of Chorus

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101654" target="_blank" >https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101654</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101654" target="_blank" >10.1029/2022GL101654</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Effects of Field-Aligned Cold Plasma Density Filaments on the Fine Structure of Chorus

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The whistler-mode chorus emission, a major driver of radiation belt electron energization and precipitation, exhibits significant amplitude modulations on millisecond timescales. These subpacket modulations are accompanied by fast changes in the wave normal angle. Understanding the evolution of wave propagation properties inside chorus elements is essential for modeling nonlinear chorus-electron interactions, but the origin of these rapid changes is unclear. We propose that the variations come from propagation inside thin, field-aligned cold plasma enhancements (density ducts), which produce differing modulations in parallel and perpendicular wave magnetic field components. We show that a full-wave simulation on a filamented density background predicts wave vector and amplitude evolution similar to Van Allen Probes spacecraft observations. We further demonstrate that the commonly assumed wide density ducts, in which wave propagation can be studied with ray tracing methods, cannot explain the observed behavior. This indirectly proves the existence of wavelength-scale field-aligned density fluctuations.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Effects of Field-Aligned Cold Plasma Density Filaments on the Fine Structure of Chorus

Popis výsledku anglicky

The whistler-mode chorus emission, a major driver of radiation belt electron energization and precipitation, exhibits significant amplitude modulations on millisecond timescales. These subpacket modulations are accompanied by fast changes in the wave normal angle. Understanding the evolution of wave propagation properties inside chorus elements is essential for modeling nonlinear chorus-electron interactions, but the origin of these rapid changes is unclear. We propose that the variations come from propagation inside thin, field-aligned cold plasma enhancements (density ducts), which produce differing modulations in parallel and perpendicular wave magnetic field components. We show that a full-wave simulation on a filamented density background predicts wave vector and amplitude evolution similar to Van Allen Probes spacecraft observations. We further demonstrate that the commonly assumed wide density ducts, in which wave propagation can be studied with ray tracing methods, cannot explain the observed behavior. This indirectly proves the existence of wavelength-scale field-aligned density fluctuations.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Geophysical Research Letters

ISSN

0094-8276

e-ISSN

1944-8007

Svazek periodika

49

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

24

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

e2022GL101654

Kód UT WoS článku

000924604600032

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85145189230