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Liu ZY, Zong QG, Rankin R, Zhang H, Hao YX, He JS, Fu SY, Wu HH, Yue C, Pollock CJ, Le G. Particle-sounding of the spatial structure of kinetic Alfvén waves. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2088. [PMID: 37045846 PMCID: PMC10097679 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37881-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
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Kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs) are ubiquitous throughout the plasma universe. Although they are broadly believed to provide a potential approach for energy exchange between electromagnetic fields and plasma particles, neither the detail nor the efficiency of the interactions has been well-determined yet. The primary difficulty has been the paucity of knowledge of KAWs' spatial structure in observation. Here, we apply a particle-sounding technique to Magnetospheric Multiscale mission data to quantitatively determine the perpendicular wavelength of KAWs from ion gyrophase-distribution observations. Our results show that KAWs' perpendicular wavelength is statistically 2.4[Formula: see text] times proton thermal gyro-radius. This observation yields an upper bound of the energy the majority proton population can reach in coherent interactions with KAWs, that is, roughly 5.76 times proton perpendicular thermal energy. Therefore, the method and results shown here provide a basis for unraveling the effects of KAWs in dissipating energy and accelerating particles in a number of astrophysical systems, e.g., planetary magnetosphere, astrophysical shocks, stellar corona and wind, and the interstellar medium.
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- Z-Y Liu
- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China.
- Key laboratory of solar activity and space weather, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, China.
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- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Space Physics and Applied Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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Kitamura N, Amano T, Omura Y, Boardsen SA, Gershman DJ, Miyoshi Y, Kitahara M, Katoh Y, Kojima H, Nakamura S, Shoji M, Saito Y, Yokota S, Giles BL, Paterson WR, Pollock CJ, Barrie AC, Skeberdis DG, Kreisler S, Le Contel O, Russell CT, Strangeway RJ, Lindqvist PA, Ergun RE, Torbert RB, Burch JL. Direct observations of energy transfer from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in magnetosheath of Earth. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6259. [PMID: 36307443 PMCID: PMC9616889 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33604-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Electromagnetic whistler-mode waves in space plasmas play critical roles in collisionless energy transfer between the electrons and the electromagnetic field. Although resonant interactions have been considered as the likely generation process of the waves, observational identification has been extremely difficult due to the short time scale of resonant electron dynamics. Here we show strong nongyrotropy, which rotate with the wave, of cyclotron resonant electrons as direct evidence for the locally ongoing secular energy transfer from the resonant electrons to the whistler-mode waves using ultra-high temporal resolution data obtained by NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission in the magnetosheath. The nongyrotropic electrons carry a resonant current, which is the energy source of the wave as predicted by the nonlinear wave growth theory. This result proves the nonlinear wave growth theory, and furthermore demonstrates that the degree of nongyrotropy, which cannot be predicted even by that nonlinear theory, can be studied by observations. Excitation of whistler-mode waves by cyclotron instability is considered as the likely generation process of the waves. Here, the authors show direct observational evidence for locally ongoing secular energy transfer from the resonant electrons to the whistler-mode waves in Earth’s magnetosheath.
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- N Kitamura
- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. .,Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Geophysics, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Geophysics, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Aurora Engineering, Potomac, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,a.i. solutions Inc, Lanham, MD, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.,Aurora Engineering, Potomac, MD, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris-Saclay/Observatoire de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA.,Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Simultaneous macroscale and microscale wave-ion interaction in near-earth space plasmas. Nat Commun 2022; 13:5593. [PMID: 36151097 PMCID: PMC9508155 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33298-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Identifying how energy transfer proceeds from macroscales down to microscales in collisionless plasmas is at the forefront of astrophysics and space physics. It provides information on the evolution of involved plasma systems and the generation of high-energy particles in the universe. Here we report two cross-scale energy-transfer events observed by NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft in Earth’s magnetosphere. In these events, hot ions simultaneously undergo interactions with macroscale (~\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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\begin{document}$$\sim {10}^{3}$$\end{document}~103 km) electromagnetic-ion-cyclotron (EMIC) waves. The cross-scale interactions cause energy to directly transfer from macroscales to microscales, and finally dissipate at microscales via EMIC-wave-induced ion energization. The direct measurements of the energy transfer rate in the second event confirm the efficiency of this cross-scale transfer process, whose timescale is estimated to be roughly ten EMIC-wave periods about (1 min). Therefore, these observations experimentally demonstrate that simultaneous macroscale and microscale wave-ion interactions provide an efficient mechanism for cross-scale energy transfer and plasma energization in astrophysical and space plasmas. Cross-scale energy transfers in collisionless plasmas help understanding involved mechanisms. Here, the authors show simultaneous macro- and micro-scale wave-ion interactions provide an efficient mechanism for cross-scale energy transfer and plasma energization in astrophysical and space plasmas.
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Asamura K, Shoji M, Miyoshi Y, Kasahara Y, Kasaba Y, Kumamoto A, Tsuchiya F, Matsuda S, Matsuoka A, Teramoto M, Kazama Y, Shinohara I. Cross-Energy Couplings from Magnetosonic Waves to Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves through Cold Ion Heating inside the Plasmasphere. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:245101. [PMID: 34951776 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.245101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2021] [Revised: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Using a novel wave-particle interaction analysis, we show observational evidence of energy transfer from fast magnetosonic waves (MSWs) to low-energy protons in the magnetosphere. The analysis clearly indicates that the transferred proton energies are further converted to excite electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves. Since MSWs are excited by hot ions, cross-energy coupling of ions occurs through MSWs. The result also suggests a new energy transfer path of exciting electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in the magnetosphere, and a complex interplay between various wave modes and particle populations.
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- Kazushi Asamura
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
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- Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
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- Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan
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Vines SK, Anderson BJ, Allen RC, Denton RE, Engebretson MJ, Johnson JR, Toledo‐Redondo S, Lee JH, Turner DL, Ergun RE, Strangeway RJ, Russell CT, Wei H, Torbert RB, Fuselier SA, Giles BL, Burch JL. Determining EMIC Wave Vector Properties Through Multi-Point Measurements: The Wave Curl Analysis. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH. SPACE PHYSICS 2021; 126:e2020JA028922. [PMID: 33868890 PMCID: PMC8047877 DOI: 10.1029/2020ja028922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2020] [Revised: 01/08/2021] [Accepted: 01/19/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves play important roles in particle loss processes in the magnetosphere. Determining the evolution of EMIC waves as they propagate and how this evolution affects wave-particle interactions requires accurate knowledge of the wave vector, k. We present a technique using the curl of the wave magnetic field to determine k observationally, enabled by the unique configuration and instrumentation of the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) spacecraft. The wave curl analysis is demonstrated for synthetic arbitrary electromagnetic waves with varying properties typical of observed EMIC waves. The method is also applied to an EMIC wave interval observed by MMS on October 28, 2015. The derived wave properties and k from the wave curl analysis for the observed EMIC wave are compared with the Waves in Homogenous, Anisotropic, Multi-component Plasma (WHAMP) wave dispersion solution and with results from other single- and multi-spacecraft techniques. We find good agreement between k from the wave curl analysis, k determined from other observational techniques, and k determined from WHAMP. Additionally, the variation of k due to the time and frequency intervals used in the wave curl analysis is explored. This exploration demonstrates that the method is robust when applied to a wave containing at least 3-4 wave periods and over a rather wide frequency range encompassing the peak wave emission. These results provide confidence that we are able to directly determine the wave vector properties using this multi-spacecraft method implementation, enabling systematic studies of EMIC wave k properties with MMS.
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- S. K. Vines
- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- Department of Physics and AstronomyDartmouth CollegeHanoverNHUSA
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- Department of EngineeringAndrews UniversityBerrien SpringsMIUSA
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- Department of Electromagnetism and ElectronicsUniversity of MurciaMurciaSpain
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- The Aerospace CorporationEl SegundoCAUSA
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- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryLaurelMDUSA
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- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space PhysicsUniversity of Colorado at BoulderBoulderCOUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesInstitute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California at Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesInstitute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California at Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space SciencesInstitute for Geophysics and Planetary PhysicsUniversity of California at Los AngelesLos AngelesCAUSA
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- Space Science CenterUniversity of New HampshireDurhamNHUSA
- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
- Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of Texas at San AntonioSan AntonioTXUSA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterGreenbeltMDUSA
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- Southwest Research InstituteSan AntonioTXUSA
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Coupling Large Eddies and Waves in Turbulence: Case Study of Magnetic Helicity at the Ion Inertial Scale. ATMOSPHERE 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/atmos11020203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In turbulence, for neutral or conducting fluids, a large ratio of scales is excited because of the possible occurrence of inverse cascades to large, global scales together with direct cascades to small, dissipative scales, as observed in the atmosphere and oceans, or in the solar environment. In this context, using direct numerical simulations with forcing, we analyze scale dynamics in the presence of magnetic fields with a generalized Ohm’s law including a Hall current. The ion inertial length ϵ H serves as the control parameter at fixed Reynolds number. Both the magnetic and generalized helicity—invariants in the ideal case—grow linearly with time, as expected from classical arguments. The cross-correlation between the velocity and magnetic field grows as well, more so in relative terms for a stronger Hall current. We find that the helical growth rates vary exponentially with ϵ H , provided the ion inertial scale resides within the inverse cascade range. These exponential variations are recovered phenomenologically using simple scaling arguments. They are directly linked to the wavenumber power-law dependence of generalized and magnetic helicity, ∼ k − 2 , in their inverse ranges. This illustrates and confirms the important role of the interplay between large and small scales in the dynamics of turbulent flows.
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