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Ion acceleration inside foreshock transients


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dc.contributorTerry Zixu Liu, terryliuzixu@ucla.eduen_US
dc.creatorLiu, Terry Z.
dc.creatorLu, San
dc.creatorAngelopoulos, Vassilis
dc.creatorLin, Yu
dc.creatorWang, Xueyi
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-17T15:25:13Z
dc.date.available2023-06-17T15:25:13Z
dc.date.created2018
dc.identifier10.1002/2017JA024838en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017JA024838en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50536
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-604
dc.description.abstractRecent observations upstream of Earth's bow shock have revealed that foreshock transients can not only accelerate solar wind ions by reflection at their upstream boundaries but may also accelerate ions inside them. Evidence for the latter comes from comparisons of ion spectra inside and outside the cores, and from evidence of leakage of suprathermal ions from the cores. However, definite evidence for, and the physics of, ion acceleration in the foreshock transients are still open questions. Using case studies of foreshock transients from Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms observations, we reveal an ion acceleration mechanism in foreshock transients that is applicable to ~25% of the transients. The ion energy flux is enhanced between several keV to tens of keV in the cores. We show that these energetic ions are reflected at the earthward moving boundary of foreshock transients, are accelerated through partial gyration along the convection electric field, and can leak out both upstream and downstream of the foreshock transients. Using ions moving self-consistently with a generic 3-D global hybrid simulation of a foreshock transient, we confirm this physical picture of ion acceleration and leakage. These accelerated ions could be further accelerated at the local bow shock and repopulate the foreshock, increasing the efficacy of solar wind-magnetosphere interactions.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Geophysical Research: Space Physicsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2169-9402en_US
dc.rights©2017 American Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.subjection foreshocken_US
dc.subjectkinetic phenomenaen_US
dc.subjectparticle accelerationen_US
dc.subjectshock processesen_US
dc.titleIon acceleration inside foreshock transientsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume123en_US
dc.citation.issue1en_US
dc.citation.spage163en_US
dc.citation.epage178en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-1778-4289en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-5533-5981en_US

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