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Simulations of a plasmoid penetrating a magnetic barrier

H Gunell, T Hurtig, H Nilsson, M Koepke, N Brenning2008年Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIF 2.2出版社

Plasma structures, here typified by the term 'plasmoids', in the solar wind impacting on the magnetopause, i.e. the boundary between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere, can penetrate this boundary and be injected into the magnetosphere. This can happen either by expulsion of the magnetic field from the structure and subsequent diffusion of the magnetic field into the structure or by the formation of a polarization electric field that lets the plasma structure E × B-drift into the earth's magnetic field. In both cases a collisionless resistivity is required at some stage of the process. While magnetic expulsion requires electromagnetic models for its description, polarization can be modelled electrostatically and both processes can be, and have been, studied in laboratory experiments.We present three-dimensional electrostatic particle-in-cell simulations that reproduce large-amplitude waves, in the lower-hybrid range, that have been observed in laboratory experiments. Lower-hybrid waves have also been seen at the magnetopause of the earth. We consider the implications for spacecraft-based studies of magnetopause penetration, and suggest that the search for penetrating plasma structures should emphasize cases in which the interplanetary magnetic field is oriented northwards, as this configuration is less likely for reconnection. The application of theoretical predictions to the magnetopause environment shows that a plasma structure penetrating via polarization needs to be small, i.e. less than 10–100 km wide for typical parameters, and that wave processes at the magnetopause are needed to create such small structures. A larger structure can penetrate by means of magnetic expulsion.

日本語訳

プラズマ構造、ここではプラズモイドという用語で代表されるものは、太陽風が磁気圏境界、すなわち太陽風と地球磁気圏の間の境界に衝突する際に、この境界を貫通して磁気圏内に注入され得る。これは、磁場の構造からの排除とそれに続く磁場の構造内への拡散によって、あるいは分極電場の形成によってプラズマ構造が地球磁場中をE×Bドリフトすることを通じて起こり得る。どちらの場合も、過程のある段階において無衝突抵抗率が必要とされる。磁場の排除はその記述に電磁モデルを必要とする一方、分極は静電的にモデル化され得る。そして両方の過程は実験室実験において研究され得るものであり、実際に研究されてきた。我々は、実験室実験で観測された低混成周波数帯の大振幅波動を再現する三次元静電粒子インセルシミュレーションを提示する。低混成波動は地球の磁気圏境界でも観測されている。我々は、宇宙機による磁気圏境界貫通の研究への示唆を考察し、貫通するプラズマ構造の探索は、惑星間磁場が北向きである場合に重点を置くべきであると提案する。なぜなら、この配置は磁気リコネクションが起こりにくいからである。理論的予測の磁気圏境界環境への適用は、分極によって貫通するプラズマ構造は、典型的なパラメータでは10〜100km未満の大きさである必要があり、そのような小さな構造の生成には磁気圏境界における波動過程が必要であることを示している。より大きな構造は磁場の排除によって貫通し得る。

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