日本地球惑星科学連合2014年大会

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セッション記号 P (宇宙惑星科学) » P-EM 太陽地球系科学・宇宙電磁気学・宇宙環境

[P-EM29_30AM2] プラズマ宇宙:波動粒子相互作用,粒子加速,相対論的プラズマ

2014年4月30日(水) 11:00 〜 12:45 503 (5F)

コンビーナ:*松清 修一(九州大学大学院総合理工学研究院流体環境理工学部門)、永岡 賢一(核融合科学研究所)、座長:中村 匡(福井県立大学)

11:45 〜 12:00

[PEM29-10] 準垂直衝撃波における電子加速の粒子シミュレーション

*篠原 育1藤本 正樹1中村 琢磨2 (1.宇宙航空研究開発機構/宇宙科学研究所、2.ロスアラモス国立研究所)

キーワード:衝撃波加速, 粒子シミュレーション

We found efficient production of non-thermal electrons up to γ〜20 in results of three-dimensional full kinetic simulations of quasi-perpendicular shocks. The seed acceleration occurs in large-amplitude electromagnetic wave excited in the most front region of the shock foot. A small portion of electrons keeps staying in the foot region due to the scattering by the large-amplitude electromagnetic wave, and these electrons can get energy from the motional electric field in the shock rest frame. Since the large-amplitude electromagnetic wave is only possible in 3-D simulations, no electron acceleration is observed in previous 1-D and 2-D simulations. After the seed acceleration, these electrons can be further accelerated at the shock lamp region by the shock drift acceleration. The acceleration process occurs during the steepen phase of the self-reformation, and the acceleration efficiency depends on the phase of the shock self-reformation. In contrast to the standard Fermi acceleration at quasi-parallel shocks, the electron acceleration process at quasi-perpendicular shocks is much quicker (order of the ion cyclotron period); however, electrons cannot experience effective acceleration again and again so that there would be an energy limitation of the acceleration. In this presentation, we will discuss the energy limit of electron acceleration at quasi-perpendicular shocks by using simulation results obtained from the K computer.