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Electron Acceleration at Earth's Bow Shock Due to Stochastic Shock Drift Acceleration
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Electrical Engineering, Space and Plasma Physics.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Electrical Engineering, Space and Plasma Physics. Ventspils University of Applied Sciences, Ventspils, Latvia.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1654-841X
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA.
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2024 (English)In: Geophysical Research Letters, ISSN 0094-8276, E-ISSN 1944-8007, Vol. 51, no 5, article id e2023GL106612Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We use the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) to study electron acceleration at Earth's quasi-perpendicular bow shock to address the long-standing electron injection problem. The observations are compared to the predictions of the stochastic shock drift acceleration (SSDA) theory. Recent studies based on SSDA predict electron distribution being a power law with a cutoff energy that scales with upstream parameters. This scaling law has been successfully tested for a single Earth's bow shock crossing by MMS. Here we extend this study and test the prediction of the scaling law for seven MMS Earth's bow shock crossings with different upstream parameters. A goodness-of-fit test shows good agreement between observations and SSDA theoretical predictions, thus supporting SSDA as one of the most promising candidates for solving the electron injection problem.

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American Geophysical Union (AGU) , 2024. Vol. 51, no 5, article id e2023GL106612
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acceleration, electron, shock
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Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-344347DOI: 10.1029/2023GL106612ISI: 001174999000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85186429633OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-344347DiVA, id: diva2:1844350
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