GYROSURFING ACCELERATION OF IONS IN FRONT OF EARTH's QUASI-PARALLEL BOW SHOCK

Arpad Kis 1, * Oleksiy Agapitov 2, 3 Vladimir Krasnoselskikh 2 Yuri V. Khotyaintsev 4 Iannis Dandouras 5 Istvan Lemperger 1 Viktor Wesztergom 1
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1 Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences [Budapest]
2 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
3 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]
4 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]
5 CESR - Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements
Abstract : It is well known that shocks in space plasmas can accelerate particles to high energies. However, many details of the shock acceleration mechanism are still unknown. A critical element of shock acceleration is the injection problem; i.e., the presence of the so called seed particle population that is needed for the acceleration to work efficiently. In our case study, we present for the first time observational evidence of gyroresonant surfing acceleration in front of Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock resulting in the appearance of the long-suspected seed particle population. For our analysis, we use simultaneous multi-spacecraft measurements provided by the Cluster spacecraft ion (CIS), magnetic (FGM), and electric field and wave instrument (EFW) during a time period of large inter-spacecraft separation distance. The spacecraft were moving toward the bow shock and were situated in the foreshock region. The results show that the gyroresonance surfing acceleration takes place as a consequence of interaction between circularly polarized monochromatic (or quasi-monochromatic) transversal electromagnetic plasma waves and short large amplitude magnetic structures (SLAMSs). The magnetic mirror force of the SLAMS provides the resonant conditions for the ions trapped by the waves and results in the acceleration of ions. Since wave packets with circular polarization and different kinds of magnetic structures are very commonly observed in front of Earth's quasi-parallel bow shock, the gyroresonant surfing acceleration proves to be an important particle injection mechanism. We also show that seed ions are accelerated directly from the solar wind ion population. Key words: acceleration of particles – plasmas – shock waves – supernovae: general – waves Online-only material: color figures
Keywords : acceleration of particles plasmas shock waves supernovae: general waves
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The Astrophysical journal letters, Bristol : IOP Publishing, 2013, 771 (1), pp.4. 〈10.1088/0004-637X/771/1/4〉
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Arpad Kis, Oleksiy Agapitov, Vladimir Krasnoselskikh, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Iannis Dandouras, et al.. GYROSURFING ACCELERATION OF IONS IN FRONT OF EARTH's QUASI-PARALLEL BOW SHOCK. The Astrophysical journal letters, Bristol : IOP Publishing, 2013, 771 (1), pp.4. 〈10.1088/0004-637X/771/1/4〉. 〈insu-01258093〉

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