Kinetic simulations of electron response to shear Alfvén waves in magnetospheric plasmas

C. E.J. Watt; R. Rankin; R. Marchand

doi:10.1063/1.1647140

Kinetic simulations of electron response to shear Alfvén waves in magnetospheric plasmas

C. E.J. Watt^*, R. Rankin, R. Marchand

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Abstract

The contribution to electron acceleration and parallel electric field formation was analyzed by shear Alfvén waves on auroral field lines in the Earth's magnetosphere. The one-dimensional solution was determined by self-consistent coupled Vlasov-Maxwell system for shear Alfvén waves. The Vlasov equation was gyro-averaged to minimize number of dimensions and electron distribution function was also described in terms of spatial coordinate along field line. The shear Alfvén wave pulses propagating in magnetic field on model auroral filed lines were described in terms of kinetic electron response and parallel electric field.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1277-1284
Number of pages	8
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	11
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1647140
Publication status	Published - Apr 2004
Externally published	Yes

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