期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 107, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.065001
关键词
-
资金
- NASA [NNX08AM37G]
- NSF [ATM-0645271]
- STFC at Imperial College London [ST/G00725X/1]
- STFC [ST/G00725X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G00725X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NASA [NNX08AM37G, 98509] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
The propagation of reconnection signatures and their associated energy are examined using kinetic particle-in-cell simulations and Cluster satellite observations. It is found that the quadrupolar out-of-plane magnetic field near the separatrices is associated with a kinetic Alfven wave. For magnetotail parameters, the parallel propagation of this wave is super-Alfvenic (V-parallel to similar to 1500-5500 km/s) and generates substantial Poynting flux (S similar to 10(-5)-10 (-4) W/m(2)) consistent with Cluster observations of magnetic reconnection. This Poynting flux substantially exceeds that due to frozen-in ion bulk outflows and is sufficient to generate white light aurora in Earth's ionosphere.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据