日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会

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[P-EM04_28PM1] New Perspectives on Earth's Inner Magnetosphere

2014年4月28日(月) 14:15 〜 15:55 311 (3F)

コンビーナ:*Summers Danny(Dept of Math and Stats,Memorial University of Newfoundland)、海老原 祐輔(京都大学生存圏研究所)、三好 由純(名古屋大学太陽地球環境研究所)、座長:Summers Danny(Dept of Math and Stats,Memorial University of Newfoundland)

14:35 〜 14:55

[PEM04-08] Particle Acceleration in Kinetic Eigenmodes from the Van Allen Probes

*CHASTON Christopher1BONNELL John2WYGANT John3KLETZING Craig4MOZER Forrest2BALE Stuart2KURTH William4HOSPARDARSKY George4KERSTEN Kris3BRENEMAN Aaron3SMITH Charles5MACDONALD Elizabeth6 (1.School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia、2.Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA、3.School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA、4.Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA、5.Department of Physics and IEOS, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA、6.Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA)

キーワード:Particle acceleration, Alfven waves, van allen probes, field lines resonances, ring current, radiation belts

The Van Allen Probes have revealed the presence of a broad spectrum of narrow scale Alfvén eigenmodes in the inner magnetosphere during geomagnetic storms. Here we use observations from the Van Allen Probes to build a reduced MHD model for these waves in a dipolar geomagnetic field. This model is then used to explore the manner through which particles may be accelerated in these wavefields. Test particle simulations show that the narrow perpendicular scale and parallel electric fields carried by these waves lead to the violation of the 1st and 2nd adiabatic invariants for ions. This can drive the heating of the thermal ion population to multi-keV temperatures and the acceleration of a small fraction of these particles to energies exceeding 100 keV. This process has obvious implications for the storm time ring current, but also for the acceleration/loss of radiation belt electrons.