期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
卷 125, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2020JA028058
关键词
foreshock bubbles; foreshock transients; kinetic simulations
资金
- NASA [NAS5-02099, 80NSCC18K1036]
- NASA RTOP Formation and Properties of Foreshock Bubbles
- MMS Contract at Southwest Research Institute [NNG04EB99C]
We use global and local hybrid (kinetic ions and fluid electrons) simulations to investigate the conditions under which foreshock bubbles (FBs) form and how their topology changes with solar wind conditions. FBs form as a result of the interaction between solar wind discontinuities and backstreaming ion beams in the foreshock. They consist of an outer shock and its associated sheath plasma and a low density high temperature core with low magnetic field strength. The structure of FBs is determined by the angle between the interplanetary magnetic field and the normal to the solar wind discontinuity. We show that interaction of rotational discontinuities with the foreshock during small angles between the interplanetary magnetic field and discontinuity normal results in the formation of a nearly spherical bubble with a radius that scales with the width of the foreshock. As this angle increases, FBs become more elongated and eventually become nearly planar structures with dimensions that scale with the length of the foreshock. Despite this transformation, the signatures of FBs in spacecraft time series data remain the same in agreement with the observations. Global simulation results show that FBs form when the solar wind flow speed corresponds to high or intermediate Alfven Mach numbers (approximately >7 M-A). In general, this is tied to the relative speed between the solar wind and ion beams and drop in density of the backstreaming ions.
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