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arXiv 2009.05010physics.plasm-ph
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模拟磁鞘Turbulence中动力学Alfvén波的电子朗道阻尼

Electron Landau Damping of Kinetic Alfvén Waves in Simulated Magnetosheath Turbulence

Sarah A. Horvath, Gregory G. Howes, Andrew J. McCubbin

摘要:

湍流被认为在太阳风等离子体的加热中发挥了作用,尽管关于在日光层中驱动这一过程的机制的确切性质仍有许多问题有待解决。特别是,在湍流级联的动力学耗散范围内,粒子与湍流电磁场之间的无碰撞相互作用的物理学仍然没有完全理解。磁层多尺度(MMS)观测的间隔最近的分析使用场粒子相关技术来证明,电子朗道阻尼参与地球磁鞘中的湍流耗散。基于这一发现,我们进行了一个高分辨率的gyrokinetic数值模拟的湍流在MMS间隔调查的作用,电子朗道阻尼耗散的湍流能量。我们采用场粒子相关技术对我们的模拟数据,我们的结果进行比较,已知的速度空间签名的朗道阻尼耗散范围外,并评估净电子阻尼。我们发现定性的数值和观测结果之间的协议的一些关键方面的ESTA和推测的性质的分歧,根据实验因素,如分辨率的差异,和发展的见解的性质的场粒子相互作用的存在下,色散动力阿尔文波。

英文摘要:

Turbulence is thought to play a role in the heating of the solar wind plasma, though many questions remain to be solved regarding the exact nature of the mechanisms driving this process in the heliosphere. In particular, the physics of the collisionless interactions between particles and turbulent electromagnetic fields in the kinetic dissipation range of the turbulent cascade remains incompletely understood. A recent analysis of an interval of Magnetosphere Multiscale (MMS) observations has used the field-particle correlation technique to demonstrate that electron Landau damping is involved in the dissipation of turbulence in the Earth's magnetosheath. Motivated by this discovery, we perform a high-resolution gyrokinetic numerical simulation of the turbulence in the MMS interval to investigate the role of electron Landau damping in the dissipation of turbulent energy. We employ the field-particle correlation technique on our simulation data, compare our results to the known velocity-space signatures of Landau damping outside the dissipation range, and evaluate the net electron energization. We find qualitative agreement between the numerical and observational results for some key aspects of the energization and speculate on the nature of disagreements in light of experimental factors, such as differences in resolution, and of developing insights into the nature of field-particle interactions in the presence of dispersive kinetic Alfvén waves.

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