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Energy Transport and Conversion Within Earth's Supercritical Bow Shock: The Role of Intense Lower-Hybrid Whistler Waves
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; LATMOS-IPSL-UVSQ-CNRS, Guyancourt, France.
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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2024 (English)In: Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics, ISSN 2169-9380, E-ISSN 2169-9402, Vol. 129, no 5, article id e2023JA031630Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Detailed analysis of a high Mach number quasiperpendicular Earth bow shock crossing by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft fleet reveal that lower-hybrid (LH) whistler waves generated in the shock foot region transport energy predominately along the shock surface and slightly toward the shock ramp in the shock normal incidence frame, where wave energy accumulates and is dissipated into the plasma. This suggests the LH whistlers play an integral role in energy reconfiguration at high Mach number collisionless shocks with ramifications to plasma heating. The multipoint observations are used to quantify the wave characteristic parameters (via interferometry), Poynting fluxes, and energy conversion rates D, and to assess their scale dependencies and spatial and temporal properties. The whistler associated energy transport and conversion are found to depend on scale and location within the layer. High-frequency electrostatic waves yield largest values of D. However, the dominant net energy exchange contribution is from the LH whistlers. In the foot spatially temporally coherent net energy exchange from the plasma to whistlers is observed, whereas deeper in the ramp net wave energy dissipation to the plasma is observed exhibiting significant space-time variability. These results are consistent with the modified two stream instability driven by the relative drift between reflected ions and electrons as the mechanism for wave growth in the foot. Owing to strong electron heating, whistler energy dissipation in the ramp is attributed to Landau damping, which out-competes the destabilizing effect of the reflected ion and electron drift.

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American Geophysical Union (AGU) , 2024. Vol. 129, no 5, article id e2023JA031630
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collisionless shocks, electromagnetic waves, energy transport and dissipation, plasma heating, Poynting flux, whistler waves
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Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-346374DOI: 10.1029/2023JA031630ISI: 001264040900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85191714647OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-346374DiVA, id: diva2:1857568
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