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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 44, Issue 8, Pages 3441-3446Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072624
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- National Science Foundation of China [41631071, 41474142, 41421063]
- U.S. DoE grant
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Nonlinear wave-particle interaction during chorus wave generation was assumed to be in the adiabatic regime in previous studies, i.e., the particle phase-space trapping timescale (tau(tr)) is considered to be much smaller than the nonlinear dynamics timescale tau(NL). In this work, we use particle-in-cell simulations to demonstrate that tau(tr)similar to tau(NL), i.e., the interaction regime during chorus generation is in the nonadiabatic regime. The timescale for nonlinear evolution of resonant particle phase-space structures is determined by making the time-averaged power exchange plot, which clearly demonstrates that particles with pitch angle near 80 degrees make the most significant contribution to wave growth. The phase-space trapping timescale is also comparable to the amplitude modulation timescale of chorus, suggesting that chorus subpackets are formed because of the self-consistent evolution of resonant particle phase-space structures and spatiotemporal features of the fluctuation spectrum.
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