Oxygen Ions O+ Energized by Kinetic Alfven Eigenmode During Dipolarizations of Intense Substorms

Duan, SupingChinese Acad Sci, Natl Space Sci Ctr, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing, Peoples R China. (author)

Singly charged oxygen ions, O+, energized by kinetic Alfven wave eigenmode (KAWE) in the plasma sheet boundary layer during dipolarizations of two intense substorms, 10: 07 UT on 31 August 2004 and 18: 24 UT on 14 September 2004, are investigated by Cluster spacecraft in the magnetotail. It is found that after the beginning of the expansion phase of substorms, O+ ions are clearly energized in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic field with energy larger than 1 keV in the near-Earth plasma sheet during magnetic dipolarizations. The pitch angle distribution of these energetic O+ ions is significantly different from that of O+ ions with energy less than 1 keV before substorm onset that is in the quasi-parallel direction along the magnetic field. The KAWE with the large perpendicular unipolar electric field, E-z similar to -20 mV/m, significantly accelerates O+ ions in the direction perpendicular to the background magnetic field. We present good evidences that O+ ion origin from the ionosphere along the magnetic field line in the northward lobe can be accelerated in the perpendicular direction during substorm dipolarizations. The change of the move direction of O+ ions is useful for O+ transferring from the lobe into the central plasma sheet in the magnetotail. Thus, KAWE can play an important role in O+ ion transfer process from the lobe into the plasma sheet during intense substorms.

Dai, LeiChinese Acad Sci, Natl Space Sci Ctr, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing, Peoples R China. (author)
Wang, ChiChinese Acad Sci, Natl Space Sci Ctr, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing, Peoples R China. (author)
He, ZhaohaiChinese Acad Sci, Natl Space Sci Ctr, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing, Peoples R China. (author)
Cai, ChunlinChinese Acad Sci, Natl Space Sci Ctr, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing, Peoples R China. (author)
Zhang, Y. C.Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Space Sci Ctr, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing, Peoples R China. (author)
Dandouras, I.Univ Toulouse, UPS OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France.;CNRS, IRAP, Toulouse, France. (author)
Reme, H.Univ Toulouse, UPS OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France.;CNRS, IRAP, Toulouse, France. (author)
André, MatsUppsala universitet,Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsalaavdelningen(Swepub:uu)maand125 (author)
Khotyaintsev, Yuri V.Uppsala universitet,Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsalaavdelningen(Swepub:uu)ykh28990 (author)
Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Space Sci Ctr, State Key Lab Space Weather, Beijing, Peoples R China.Univ Toulouse, UPS OMP, IRAP, Toulouse, France.;CNRS, IRAP, Toulouse, France. (creator_code:org_t)

In:Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics: American Geophysical Union (AGU)122:11, s. 11256-112732169-93802169-9402

By the author/editor: Duan, Suping; Dai, Lei; Wang, Chi; He, Zhaohai; Cai, Chunlin; Zhang, Y. C.; show more...; Dandouras, I.; Reme, H.; André, Mats; Khotyaintsev, Yu ...; show less...

About the subject

NATURAL SCIENCES: NATURAL SCIENCES; and Physical Science ...; and Astronomy Astrop ...

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.