日本地球惑星科学連合2018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-EM16] Dynamics of Earth's Inner Magnetosphere and Initial Results from Arase

2018年5月22日(火) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 7ホール)

コンビーナ:Danny Summers(Memorial University of Newfoundland)、三好 由純(名古屋大学宇宙地球環境研究所)、細川 敬祐(電気通信大学大学院情報理工学研究科、共同)、海老原 祐輔(京都大学生存圏研究所)

[PEM16-P02] Simulation study of the dependence of the whistler-mode chorus generation on properties of energetic electrons in the Earth's inner magnetosphere

*加藤 雄人1大村 善治2三宅 洋平3臼井 英之3中島 浩4 (1.東北大学大学院理学研究科、2.京都大学生存圏研究所、3.神戸大学大学院システム情報学研究科、4.京都大学学術情報メディアセンター)

キーワード:whistler-mode chorus、numerical experiments、inner magnetosphere

By a series of self-consistent electron hybrid code simulations, we study the dependence of the generation process of whistler-mode chorus emissions on the properties of the velocity distribution function of energetic electrons. In particular, in the present study, we focus on the temperature anisotropy and density of energetic electrons in the Earth's inner magnetosphere. We use the same magnetic field gradient in the simulation system and different temperature anisotropy AT for the initial distribution of energetic electrons at the magnetic equator. We conduct 6 sets of simulations for different AT from 4 to 9, changing the initial number density Nh of energetic electrons at the equator in each set of simulations. By analyzing the spectra obtained in the simulation results, we identify chorus elements with rising tones in the results for higher Nh but no distinct chorus in smaller Nh. We compare the simulation results with estimations of the threshold and optimum amplitude proposed by the nonlinear wave growth theory. We find that the chorus generation processes reproduced in the simulation results are consistently explained by the theoretical estimates. We also compare the simulation results with linear growth rates for all simulation runs. We find clear disagreement between the spectral characteristics of reproduced chorus and the predictions by the linear theory. The present study clarifies that the spectra of chorus are essentially different from those predicted by the linear theory and are determined fully by nonlinear processes of wave-particle interactions in the chorus generation region.