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Evidence for transient, local ion foreshocks caused by dayside magnetopause reconnection
Tekijät: Pfau-Kempf Y, Hietala H, Milan SE, Juusola L, Hoilijoki S, Ganse U, von Alfthan S, Palmroth M
Kustantaja: COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
Julkaisuvuosi: 2016
Lehti: Annales Geophysicae
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: ANNALES GEOPHYSICAE
Lehden akronyymi: ANN GEOPHYS-GERMANY
Vuosikerta: 34
Numero: 11
Aloitussivu: 943
Lopetussivu: 959
Sivujen määrä: 17
ISSN: 0992-7689
eISSN: 1432-0576
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-943-2016
Tiivistelmä
We present a scenario resulting in time-dependent behaviour of the bow shock and transient, local ion reflection under unchanging solar wind conditions. Dayside magnetopause reconnection produces flux transfer events driving fast-mode wave fronts in the magnetosheath. These fronts push out the bow shock surface due to their increased downstream pressure. The resulting bow shock deformations lead to a configuration favourable to localized ion reflection and thus the formation of transient, travelling foreshock-like field-aligned ion beams. This is identified in two-dimensional global magnetospheric hybrid-Vlasov simulations of the Earth's magnetosphere performed using the Vlasiator model (http://vlasiator.fmi.fi). We also present observational data showing the occurrence of dayside reconnection and flux transfer events at the same time as Geotail observations of transient foreshock-like field-aligned ion beams. The spacecraft is located well upstream of the fore-shock edge and the bow shock, during a steady southward interplanetary magnetic field and in the absence of any solar wind or interplanetary magnetic field perturbations. This indicates the formation of such localized ion foreshocks.
We present a scenario resulting in time-dependent behaviour of the bow shock and transient, local ion reflection under unchanging solar wind conditions. Dayside magnetopause reconnection produces flux transfer events driving fast-mode wave fronts in the magnetosheath. These fronts push out the bow shock surface due to their increased downstream pressure. The resulting bow shock deformations lead to a configuration favourable to localized ion reflection and thus the formation of transient, travelling foreshock-like field-aligned ion beams. This is identified in two-dimensional global magnetospheric hybrid-Vlasov simulations of the Earth's magnetosphere performed using the Vlasiator model (http://vlasiator.fmi.fi). We also present observational data showing the occurrence of dayside reconnection and flux transfer events at the same time as Geotail observations of transient foreshock-like field-aligned ion beams. The spacecraft is located well upstream of the fore-shock edge and the bow shock, during a steady southward interplanetary magnetic field and in the absence of any solar wind or interplanetary magnetic field perturbations. This indicates the formation of such localized ion foreshocks.
Avainsanat:
Interplanetary physics (planetary bow shocks), magnetospheric physics (magnetosheath; solar wind-magnetosphere interactions)
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