Acceleration of heavy ions in dipolarization events
Abstract
Using an MHD simulation of near tail reconnection associated with the collapse (dipolarization) of the inner tail in combination with test particle tracing we study the acceleration of energetic oxygen ions and their spatial and temporal distributions. The simulated fluxes show large anisotropies and nongyrotropic effects, phase bunching, and spatially and temporally localized beams
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMSM012..01B
- Keywords:
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- 2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions;
- IONOSPHERE;
- 2736 Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS;
- 2788 Magnetic storms and substorms;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS