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Titel Bow shock specularly reflected ions in the presence of low-frequency electromagnetic waves: a case study
VerfasserIn K. Meziane, C. Mazelle, M. Wilber, D. LeQuéau, J. P. Eastwood, H. Rème, I. Dandouras, J. A. Sauvaud, J. M. Bosqued, G. K. Parks, L. M. Kistler, M. McCarthy, B. Klecker, A. Korth, M.-B. Bavassano-Cattaneo, R. Lundin, A. Balogh
Medientyp Artikel
Sprache Englisch
ISSN 0992-7689
Digitales Dokument URL
Erschienen In: Annales Geophysicae ; 22, no. 7 ; Nr. 22, no. 7 (2004-07-14), S.2325-2335
Datensatznummer 250014923
Publikation (Nr.) Volltext-Dokument vorhandencopernicus.org/angeo-22-2325-2004.pdf
 
Zusammenfassung
An energetic ion (E≤40) event observed by the CLUSTER/CIS experiment upstream of the Earth's bow shock is studied in detail. The ion event is observed in association with quasi-monochromatic ULF MHD-like waves, which we show modulate the ion fluxes. According to three statistical bow shock position models, the Cluster spacecrafts are located at ~0.5 Re from the shock and the averaged bow shock θBn0 is about ~30°. The analysis of the three-dimensional angular distribution indicates that ions propagating roughly along the magnetic field direction are observed at the onset of the event. Later on, the angular distribution is gyrophase-bunched and the pitch-angle distribution is peaked at α0~θBn0, consistent with the specular reflection production mechanism. The analysis of the waves shows that they are left-handed in the spacecraft frame of reference (right-handed in the solar wind frame) and propagate roughly along the ambient magnetic field; we have found that they are in cyclotron-resonance with the field-aligned beam observed just upstream. Using properties of the waves and particles, we explain the observed particle flux-modulation in the context of θBn changes at the shock caused by the convected ULF waves. We have found that the high count rates coincide with particles leaving the shock when θBn angles are less than ~40°, consistent with the specular reflection hypothesis as the production mechanism of ions.
 
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