Journal article
MMS Observations of the Velocity-space Signature of Shock-drift Acceleration
Astrophysical journal. Letters, Vol.980(2), L23
02/20/2025
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adb0b2
Abstract
Collisionless shocks play a key role in the heliosphere at planetary bow shocks by governing the conversion of the upstream bulk kinetic energy of the solar wind flow to other forms of energy in the downstream, including heating of the plasma species, acceleration of particles, and increase of magnetic energy. For a perpendicular collisionless shock with Alfvén Mach number MA = 5.5, we present here the first observational identification of the velocity-space signature of shock-drift acceleration of ions, previously predicted using kinetic numerical simulations, using a field–particle correlation analysis of Magnetospheric Multiscale observations of Earth's bow shock. Furthermore, by resolving the ion energization rates as a function of particle velocity, the field–particle correlation technique facilitates a clean quantitative separation of the energization rate of the reflected ions from that of the incoming ion beam, enabling a more complete characterization of the energy conversion at the shock.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- MMS Observations of the Velocity-space Signature of Shock-drift Acceleration
- Creators
- P. Montag - University of IowaG. G. Howes - University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, gregory-howes@uiowa.edu USAD. McGinnis - University of IowaA. S. Afshari - University of IowaM. J. Starkey - Southwest Research InstituteM. I. Desai - Southwest Research Institute
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Astrophysical journal. Letters, Vol.980(2), L23
- Publisher
- The American Astronomical Society
- DOI
- 10.3847/2041-8213/adb0b2
- ISSN
- 2041-8205
- eISSN
- 2041-8213
- Number of pages
- 6
- Grant note
- 80NSSC18K1371 / NASA ∣ SMD ∣ Heliophysics Division (HPD) (https://doi.org/10.13039/100020016) 80NSSC18K0643 / NASA ∣ SMD ∣ Heliophysics Division (HPD) (https://doi.org/10.13039/100020016) 80NSSC20K1273 / NASA ∣ SMD ∣ Heliophysics Division (HPD) (https://doi.org/10.13039/100020016) 80NSSC24K0260 / NASA ∣ SMD ∣ Heliophysics Division (HPD) (https://doi.org/10.13039/100020016) 80NSCC18K1366 / NASA ∣ SMD ∣ Heliophysics Division (HPD) (https://doi.org/10.13039/100020016)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/20/2025
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984790992302771
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