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大尺度磁Turbulence对垂直冲击加速电子的影响

The Effect of Large Scale Magnetic Turbulence on the Acceleration of Electrons by Perpendicular Collisionless Shocks

Fan Guo, Joe Giacalone

摘要:

我们研究了在无碰撞冲击下电子加速的物理学,这些冲击通过包含大尺度磁波动的等离子体移动。我们数值积分的大量的电子,这被视为测试粒子移动的时间相关的电场和磁场从2-D混合模拟(动力学离子,流体电子)的轨迹。大规模的磁波动以多种方式影响电子,并导致在冲击波前沿有效和快速的电子振荡。由于电子主要沿着磁力线运动,空间中磁力线的大规模编织允许快速移动的电子多次穿过冲击波阵面,从而实现有效的加速。冲击波阵面中的各种尺度的波纹也将通过镜像电子而有助于加速。我们的计算表明,这一过程有利于电子加速在垂直冲击。本文的研究也有助于理解无碰撞冲击加速电子的注入问题。它还表明,高能电子的空间分布是类似的原位观测(例如,Bale等人,1999年; Simnett等人,2005年)。这一过程可能对我们理解行星弓形激波和行星际激波中的高能电子以及解释某些II型太阳射电爆发中的人字形结构很重要。

英文摘要:

We study the physics of electron acceleration at collisionless shocks that move through a plasma containing large-scale magnetic fluctuations. We numerically integrate the trajectories of a large number of electrons, which are treated as test particles moving in the time dependent electric and magnetic fields determined from 2-D hybrid simulations (kinetic ions, fluid electron). The large-scale magnetic fluctuations effect the electrons in a number of ways and lead to efficient and rapid energization at the shock front. Since the electrons mainly follow along magnetic lines of force, the large-scale braiding of field lines in space allows the fast-moving electrons to cross the shock front several times, leading to efficient acceleration. Ripples in the shock front occuring at various scales will also contribute to the acceleration by mirroring the electrons. Our calculation shows that this process favors electron acceleration at perpendicular shocks. The current study is also helpful in understanding the injection problem for electron acceleration by collisionless shocks. It is also shown that the spatial distribution of energetic electrons is similar to in-situ observations (e.g., Bale et al. 1999; Simnett et al. 2005). The process may be important to our understanding of energetic electrons in planetary bow shocks and interplanetary shocks, and explaining herringbone structures seen in some type II solar radio bursts.

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