Shock Acceleration of 1-100 Kev Electrons at Earth`s Bow Shock II
Abstract
We present a statistical study of shock acceleration of ~1-100 keV solar wind suprathermal eletrons at Earth's bow shock, by using Wind 3D plasma and energetic particle measurements in ambient solar wind and Magnetospheric Multiscale mission measurements in shock downstream. We select 74 shock cases from 2015 October to 2017 January and classify them into 4 types according to the spectral shape in downstream: no significant acceleration (type 0, 23 of all), power-law spectrum only at low energy (type 1, 24 of all), power-law spectrum with high energy tail (type 2, 16 of all) and double-power-law spectrum (type 3, 11 of all). We find that shock cases in type 3 have the largest flux enhancement Jdn/Jab (~1000) and θBn (~70 % of type 3 with θBn>80°), which is the angle between shock normal and upstream magnet field, followed by type 2, type 1 and type 0. It indicates that the strongest shock electron acceleration can generate a double-power-law spectrum and more likely occurs at shocks with larger θBn. Besides, Jdn/Jab has a significant positive correlation with θBn, and more than 50 % shocks show a filed-perpendicular pitch angle distributions of Jdn/Jab in downstream, which support shock drift acceleration mechanism. We also find that the normalized drift time Td/Ttr of suprathermal electrons at all energy channels shows a positive correlation with θBn, which implicates that θBn may be a key parameter affecting the drift process of suprathermal electrons in shock ramp.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMSH0420007L
- Keywords:
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- 7829 Kinetic waves and instabilities;
- SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS;
- 7845 Particle acceleration;
- SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS;
- 7846 Plasma energization;
- SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS;
- 7851 Shock waves;
- SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS