Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-j824f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-13T05:37:32.396Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Tunneling and mode conversion of fast magnetosonic waves in the magnetospheres of Earth and Mercury

Part of: Focus on Space Plasmas Present Achievements in SpacePlasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2014

Yevgen O. Kazakov  and
Tünde Fülöp
Yevgen O. Kazakov*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Plasma Physics, Royal Military Academy, LPP-ERM/KMS, TEC Partner, Brussels, BE-1000, Belgium
Tünde Fülöp
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, SE-41296, Sweden
*
†Email address for correspondence: yevgen.kazakov@rma.ac.be
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Narrow-band linearly polarized waves, having a resonant structure and a peak frequency between the local cyclotron frequency of protons and heavy ions, have been detected in the magnetospheres of Earth and of Mercury. Some of these wave events have been suggested to be driven by linear mode conversion (MC) of the fast magnetosonic waves (FWs) at the ion–ion hybrid (IIH) resonances. Since the resonant IIH frequency is linked to the plasma composition, solving the inverse problem allows one to infer the concentration of the heavy ions from the measured frequency spectra. In this paper, we identify the conditions when the MC efficiency is maximized in the magnetospheric plasmas and discuss how this can be applied for estimating the heavy ion concentration in the magnetospheres of Earth and Mercury.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , April 2015 , 325810201
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

André, M. 1985 J. Plasma Phys. 33, 1–19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022377800002270.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
André, M. and Yau, A. 1997 Space Sci. Rev. 80, 27–48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004921619885.Google Scholar
Bagenal, F. 2007 J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys. 69, 387–402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2006.08.012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Boardsen, S. A.et al. 2012 J. Geophys. Res. 117, A00 M05, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JA017822.Google Scholar
Budden, K. G. 1985 The Propagation of Radio Waves, Cambridge: Cambride University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cheng, A. F., Johnson, R. E., Krimigis, S. M. and Lanzerotti, L. J. 1987 Icarus 71, 430–440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(87)90038-8.Google Scholar
Craven, P. D., Gallagher, D. L. and Comfort, R. H. 1997 J. Geophys. Res. 102, 2279–2289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/96JA02176.Google Scholar
Denton, R. E., Thomsen, M. F., Takahashi, K., Anderson, R. R. and Singer, H. J. 2011 J. Geophys. Res. 116, A03 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JA016027.Google Scholar
Fraser, B. J., Horwitz, J. L., Slavin, J. A., Dent, Z. C. and Mann, I. R. 2005b Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L04 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021315.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fraser, B. J., Singer, H. J., Adrian, M. L., Gallagher, D. L. and Thomsen, M. F. 2005a ‘The relationship between plasma density structure and EMIC waves at geosynchronous orbit’. In: Inner Magnetosphere Interactions: New Perspectives from Imaging, (eds Burch, J., Schulz, M. and Spence, H.). Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union, pp. 55–70, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/159GM04/summary.Google Scholar
Fuchs, V., Ram, A. K., Schultz, S. D., Bers, A. and Lashmore-Davies, C. N. 1995 Phys. Plasmas 2, 1637–1647, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.871312.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fülöp, T. and Kazakov, Ye. O. 2014 In: Proc. 41st EPS Conf. on Plasma Physics, Berlin, Germany, 23–27 June 2014, P2.065http://ocs.ciemat.es/EPS2014PAP/pdf/P2.065.pdf.Google Scholar
Ip, W.-H. 1986 Geophys. Res. Lett. 13, 423–426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/GL013i005p00423.Google Scholar
Kazakov, Ye. O. and Fülöp, T. 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 125 002, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.125002.Google Scholar
Kazakov, Ye. O. and Fülöp, T. 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 089 502, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.089502.Google Scholar
Kazakov, Ye. O., Pavlenko, I. V., Van Eester, D., Weyssow, B. and Girka, I. O. 2010 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 52, 115 006, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/52/11/115006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kim, E.-H., Johnson, J. R. and Lee, D.-H. 2008 J. Geophys. Res. 113, A11 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JA013310.Google Scholar
Kim, E.-H., Johnson, J. R. and Lee, K.-D. 2011 Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L16 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GL048621.Google Scholar
Kim, E.-H. and Johnson, J. R. 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 089 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.089501.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Majeski, R., Phillips, C. K. and Wilson, J. R. 1994 Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2204–2207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2204.Google Scholar
Othmer, C., Glassmeier, K.-H. and Cramm, R. 1999 J. Geophys. Res. 104, 103 69–10 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/1999JA900009.Google Scholar
Perraut, S., Gendrin, R., Roux, A. and de Villedary, C. 1984 J. Geophys. Res. 89, 195–202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/JA089iA01p00195.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Petkaki, P. and Dougherty, M. K. 2001 Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 211–214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2000GL012029.Google Scholar
Ram, A. K.Bers, A., Schultz, S. D. and Fuchs, V. 1996 Phys. Plasmas 3, 1976–1982, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.871677.Google Scholar
Russell, C. T. 1989 Geophys. Res. Lett. 16, 1253–1256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/GL016i011p01253.Google Scholar
Russell, C. T., Wang, Y. L., Blanco-Cano, X. and Stangeway, R. J. 2001 J. Geophys. Res. 106, 26 233–26 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001JA900029.Google Scholar
Sakaguchi, K.et al. 2013 Geophys. Res. Lett. 40, 5587–5591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013GL058258.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, R. L. and Brice, N. 1964 J. Geophys. Res. 69, 5029–5040, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/JZ069i023p05029.Google Scholar
Stasiewicz, K.et al. 1994 Geophys. Res. Lett. 21, 1839–1842, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/94GL00565.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stix, T. H. 1992 Waves in Plasmas, New York: AIP.Google Scholar
Swanson, D. G. 1998 Theory of Mode Conversion and Tunneling in Inhomogeneous Plasmas, New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
Takahashi, K., Ohtani, S., Denton, R. E., Hughes, W. J. and Anderson, R. R. 2008 J. Geophys. Res. 113, A12 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2008JA013248.Google Scholar
Yau, A. W. and André, M. 1997 Space Sci. Rev. 80, 1–25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1004947203046.Google Scholar
Young, D. T.et al. 1981 J. Geophys. Res. 86, 6755–6772.Google Scholar
Zurbuchen, T. H.et al. 2011 Science 333, 1862–1865, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1211302.CrossRefGoogle Scholar