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We discuss the recent progress in studying the absolute and convective instabilities of circularly polarized Alfvén waves
(pump waves) propagating along an ambient magnetic field in the approximation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We present
analytical results obtained for pump waves with small dimensionless amplitude a, and compare them with numerical results valid for arbitrary a. The type of instability, absolute or convective, depends on the velocity U of the reference frame where the pump wave is observed with respect to the rest plasma. One of the main results of our analysis
is that the instability is absolute when U
l < U < U
r and convective otherwise. We study the dependences of U
l and U
r on a and the ratio of the sound speed to the Alfvén speed b. We also present the results of calculation of the increment of the absolute instability on U for different values of a and b. When the instability is convective (U < U
l or U > U
r) we consider the signalling problem, and show that spatially amplifying waves exist only when the signalling frequency is
in two symmetric frequency bands. Then, we write down the analytical expressions determining the boundaries of these frequency
bands and discuss how they agree with numerically calculated values. We also present the dependences of the maximum spatial
amplification rate on U calculated both analytically and numerically. The implication of the obtained results on the interpretation of observational
data from space missions is discussed. In particular, it is shown that circularly polarized Alfvén waves propagating in the
solar wind are convectively unstable in a reference frame of any realistic spacecraft. 相似文献
2.
D. J. Wu 《Space Science Reviews》2005,121(1-4):333-342
Nonthermal electrons play a major role during solar flares since not only they contain a large amount of the released energy
but also they provide important information of the flaring physics through their nonthermal radiation in radio and hard X-ray
bands. In a recent work Wu (Phys. Plasmas
10 (2003) 1364) proposed that dissipative solitary kinetic Alfvén wave (DSKAW) with a local shock-like structure could provide an efficient acceleration mechanism for energetic electrons in a
low-β plasma. In the present paper dynamical characteristics of the DSKAW acceleration mechanism in solar coronal plasmas
are studied and its application to the acceleration of flaring electrons is discussed. 相似文献
3.
Pekka Janhunen Annika Olsson Christopher T. Russell Harri Laakso 《Space Science Reviews》2006,122(1-4):89-95
Auroral emission caused by electron precipitation (Hardy et al., 1987, J. Geophys. Res. 92, 12275–12294) is powered by magnetospheric driving processes. It is not yet fully understood how the energy transfer mechanisms
are responsible for the electron precipitation. It has been proposed (Hasegawa, 1976, J. Geophys. Res. 81, 5083–5090) that Alfvén waves coming from the magnetosphere play some role in powering the aurora (Wygant et al., 2000, J. Geophys. Res. 105, 18675–18692, Keiling et al., 2003, Science
299, 383–386). Alfvén-wave-induced electron acceleration is shown to be confined in a rather narrow radial distance range of
4–5 R
E
(Earth radii) and its importance, relative to other electron acceleration mechanisms, depends strongly on the magnetic disturbance
level so that it represents 10% of all electron precipitation power during quiet conditions and increased to 40% during disturbed
conditions. Our observations suggest that an electron Landau resonance mechanism operating in the “Alfvén resonosphere” is
responsible for the energy transfer. 相似文献
4.
Vasconcelos Maria Jaqueline Jatenco-Pereira Vera Opher Reuven 《Space Science Reviews》2003,107(1-2):383-386
In this work we examine the damping of Alfvén waves as a source of plasma heating in disks and magnetic funnels of young solar
like stars, the T Tauri stars. We apply four different damping mechanisms in this study: viscous-resistive, collisional, nonlinear
and turbulent, exploring a wide range of wave frequencies, from 10−5Ωi to 10−1Ωi (where Ωi is the ion-cyclotron frequency). The results show that Alfvénic heating can increase the ionization rate of accretion disks
and elevate the temperature of magnetic funnels of T Tauri stars opening possibilities to explain some observational features
of these objects.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
5.
We study kinetic excitation mechanisms for high-frequency dispersive Alfvén waves in the solar corona, solar wind, and Earth's
magnetosphere. The ion-cyclotron and Cherenkov kinetic effects are important for these waves which we call the ion-cyclotron
kinetic Alfvén waves (ICKAWs). Ion beams, anisotropic particles distributions and currents provide free energy for the excitation
of ICKAWs in space plasmas. As particular examples we consider ICKAW instabilities in the coronal magnetic reconnection events,
in the fast solar wind, and in the Earth's magnetopause. Energy conversion and transport initiated by ICKAW instabilities
is significant for the whole dynamics of Sun-Earth connection chain, and observations of ICKAW activity could provide a diagnostic/predictive
tool in the space environment research.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
6.
We propose a new phase-mixing sweep model of coronal heating and solar wind acceleration based on dissipative properties of
kinetic Alfvén waves (KAWs). The energy reservoir is provided by the intermittent ∼1 Hz MHD Alfvén waves excited at the coronal
base by magnetic restructuring. These waves propagate upward along open magnetic field lines, phase-mix, and gradually develop
short wavelengths across the magnetic field. Eventually, at 1.5–4 solar radii they are transformed into KAWs. We analyze several
basic mechanisms for anisotropic energization of plasma species by KAWs and find them compatible with observations. In particular,
UVCS (onboard SOHO) observations of intense cross-field ion energization at 1.5–4 solar radii can be naturally explained by
non-adiabatic ion acceleration in the vicinity of demagnetizing KAW phases. The ion cyclotron motion is destroyed there by
electric and magnetic fields of KAWs. 相似文献
7.
We present a comprehensive review of MHD wave behaviour in the neighbourhood of coronal null points: locations where the magnetic field, and hence the local Alfvén speed, is zero. The behaviour of all three MHD wave modes, i.e. the Alfvén wave and the fast and slow magnetoacoustic waves, has been investigated in the neighbourhood of 2D, 2.5D and (to a certain extent) 3D magnetic null points, for a variety of assumptions, configurations and geometries. In general, it is found that the fast magnetoacoustic wave behaviour is dictated by the Alfvén-speed profile. In a ??=0 plasma, the fast wave is focused towards the null point by a refraction effect and all the wave energy, and thus current density, accumulates close to the null point. Thus, null points will be locations for preferential heating by fast waves. Independently, the Alfvén wave is found to propagate along magnetic fieldlines and is confined to the fieldlines it is generated on. As the wave approaches the null point, it spreads out due to the diverging fieldlines. Eventually, the Alfvén wave accumulates along the separatrices (in 2D) or along the spine or fan-plane (in 3D). Hence, Alfvén wave energy will be preferentially dissipated at these locations. It is clear that the magnetic field plays a fundamental role in the propagation and properties of MHD waves in the neighbourhood of coronal null points. This topic is a fundamental plasma process and results so far have also lead to critical insights into reconnection, mode-coupling, quasi-periodic pulsations and phase-mixing. 相似文献
8.
Space plasmas present intriguing and challenging puzzles to the space community. Energy accessible to excite instabilities exists in a variety of forms, particularly for the magnetospheric environment prior to substorm expansion onsets. A general consensus of the pre-expansion magnetosphere is the development of a thin current sheet in the near-Earth magnetosphere. This review starts with a short account of the two major substorm paradigms. Highlights of some observations pertaining to the consideration of potential plasma instabilities for substorm expansion are given. Since a common thread of these paradigms is the development of a thin current sheet, several efforts to model analytically a thin current sheet configuration are described. This leads to a review on the instability analyses of several prominent candidates for the physical process responsible for substorm expansion onset. The potential instabilities expounded in this review include the cross-field current, lower-hybrid-drift, drift kink/sausage, current driven Alfvénic, Kelvin-Helmholtz, tearing, and entropy anti-diffusion instabilities. Some recent results from plasma simulations relevant to the investigation of these plasma instabilities are shown. Although some of these instabilities are generally conceived to be excited in spatially localized regions in the magnetosphere, their potentials in yielding global consequences are also explored. 相似文献
9.
Andreas Keiling 《Space Science Reviews》2009,142(1-4):73-156
The Earth’s magnetotail is an extremely complex system which—energized by the solar wind—displays many phenomena, and Alfvén waves are essential to its dynamics. While Alfvén waves were first predicted in the early 1940’s and ample observations were later made with rockets and low-altitude satellites, observational evidence of Alfvén waves in different regions of the extended magnetotail has been sparse until the beginning of the new millennium. Here I provide a phenomenological overview of Alfvén waves in the magnetotail organized by region—plasmasphere, central plasma sheet, plasma sheet boundary layer, tail lobes, and reconnection region—with an emphasis on spacecraft observations reported in the new millennium that have advanced our understanding concerning the roles of Alfvén waves in the dynamics of the magnetotail. A brief discussion of the coupling of magnetotail Alfvén waves and the low-altitude auroral zone is also included. 相似文献
10.
11.
In previous publications (Keppens et al.: 2002, Astrophys. J. 569, L121; Goedbloed et al.: 2004a, Phys. Plasmas
11, 28), we have demonstrated that stationary rotation of magnetized plasma about a compact central object permits an enormous
number of different MHD instabilities, with the well-known magneto-rotational instability (Velikhov, E. P.: 1959, Soviet Phys.–JETP Lett. 36, 995; Chandrasekhar, S.: 1960, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 46, 253; Balbus, S. A. and Hawley, J. F.: 1991, Astrophys. J. 376, 214) as just one of them. We here concentrate on the new instabilities found that are driven by transonic transitions of
the poloidal flow. A particularly promising class of instabilities, from the point of view of MHD turbulence in accretion
disks, is the class of trans-slow Alfv’en continuum modes, that occur when the poloidal flow exceeds a critical value of the slow magnetosonic speed. When this happens, virtually
every magnetic/flow surface of the disk becomes unstable with respect to highly localized modes of the continuous spectrum.
The mode structures rotate, in turn, about the rotating disk. These structures lock and become explosively unstable when the
mass of the central object is increased beyond a certain critical value. Their growth rates then become huge, of the order
of the Alfv’en transit time. These instabilities appear to have all requisite properties to facilitate accretion flows across
magnetic surfaces and jet formation. 相似文献
12.
Takeru K. Suzuki 《Space Science Reviews》2011,158(2-4):339-363
We review our recent results of Alfvén wave-driven winds. First, we present the result of self-consistent 1D MHD simulations for solar winds from the photosphere to interplanetary region. Here, we emphasize the importance of the reflection of Alfvén waves in the density stratified corona and solar winds. We also introduce the recent Hinode observation that might detect the reflection signature of transverse (Alfvénic) waves by Fujimura and Tsuneta (Astrophys. J. 702:1443, 2009). Then, we show the results of Alfvén wave-driven winds from red giant stars. As a star evolves to the red giant branch, the properties of stellar winds drastically change from steady coronal winds to intermittent chromospheric winds. We also discuss how the stellar evolution affects the wave reflection in the stellar atmosphere and similarities and differences of accretion disk winds by MHD turbulence. 相似文献
13.
Katia Ferrière 《Space Science Reviews》2006,122(1-4):247-253
We present a theoretical overview of low-frequency waves and instabilities in collisionless, multi-component plasmas with
gyrotropic (
) thermal pressure. We show that the complete dispersion relation can be obtained in the framework of a mixed magnetohydrodynamic
(MHD)-kinetic formalism, which uses the MHD mass, momentum, and induction equations, together with the kinetically corrected
version of the double-adiabatic equations of state. The complete dispersion relation contains not only the three standard
modes (fast, slow, and Alfvén) from double-adiabatic MHD, but also the mirror mode from kinetic theory. We examine the stability
properties of these four modes, firstly in the case of a uniform medium, and secondly in the case of a stratified and rotating
medium. We also discuss the connections with the quasi-interchange modes (interchange and translation) often referred to in
the context of magnetospheric physics. 相似文献
14.
Nonthermal magnetospheric radio emissions provide the radio signatures of solar-terrestrial connection and may be used for
space weather forecasting. A three-wave model of auroral radio emissions at the fundamental plasma frequency was proposed
by Chian et al. (1994) involving resonant interactions of Langmuir, whistler and Alfvén waves. Chaos can appear in the nonlinear evolution
of this three-wave process in the magnetosphere. We discuss two types of intermittency in radio signals driven by temporal
chaos: the type-I Pomeau-Manneville intermittency and the interior crisis-induced intermittency. Examples of time series for
both types of intermittency are presented.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
15.
M. R. Brown P. K. Browning M. E. Dieckmann I. Furno T. P. Intrator 《Space Science Reviews》2013,178(2-4):357-383
In this article, we discuss the idea of a hierarchy of instabilities that can rapidly couple the disparate scales of a turbulent plasma system. First, at the largest scale of the system, L, current carrying flux ropes can undergo a kink instability. Second, a kink instability in adjacent flux ropes can rapidly bring together bundles of magnetic flux and drive reconnection, introducing a new scale of the current sheet width, ?, perhaps several ion inertial lengths (δ i ) across. Finally, intense current sheets driven by reconnection electric fields can destabilize kinetic waves such as ion cyclotron waves as long as the drift speed of the electrons is large compared to the ion thermal speed, v D ?v i . Instabilities such as these can couple MHD scales to kinetic scales, as small as the proton Larmor radius, ρ i . 相似文献
16.
Akira Miura 《Space Science Reviews》2001,95(1-2):387-398
After introducing a mathematical definition of the tail-like equilibrium and the dipole-like equilibrium in the magnetosphere, it is shown by using physical intuition based on the Energy Principle that the incompressible assumption for the ballooning instability is more valid for the tail-like configuration when the unstable ballooning mode is strongly localized near the equator. Therefore, before the substorm onset, the near-Earth plasma sheet becomes more tail-like and more likely to be subject to the ballooning instability without the stabilizing influence of the compressibility, when the critical plasma due to the stabilizing tension force is exceeded. The onset of the ballooning instability in the near-Earth plasma sheet seems promisingly relevant to the substorm onset phenomena. Also, the effect of the stochastic plasma dynamics on the ballooning and interchange instabilities is clearly shown. 相似文献
17.
This review is devoted to ponderomotive forces and their importance for the acceleration of charged particles by electromagnetic
waves in space plasmas. Ponderomotive forces constitute time-averaged nonlinear forces acting on a media in the presence of
oscillating electromagnetic fields. Ponderomotive forces represent a useful analytical tool to describe plasma acceleration.
Oscillating electromagnetic fields are also related with dissipative processes, such as heating of particles. Dissipative
processes are, however, left outside these discussions. The focus will be entirely on the (conservative) ponderomotive forces
acting in space plasmas.
The review consists of seven sections. In Section 1, we explain the rational for using the auxiliary ponderomotive forces
instead of the fundamental Lorentz force for the study of particle motions in oscillating fields. In Section 2, we present
the Abraham, Miller, Lundin–Hultqvist and Barlow ponderomotive forces, and the Bolotovsky–Serov ponderomotive drift. The hydrodynamic,
quasi-hydrodynamic, and ‘`test-particle’' approaches are used for the study of ponderomotive wave-particle interaction. The
problems of self-consistency and regularization are discussed in Section 3. The model of static balance of forces (Section
4) exemplifies the interplay between thermal, gravitational and ponderomotive forces, but it also introduces a set of useful
definitions, dimensionless parameters, etc. We analyze the Alfvén and ion cyclotron waves in static limit with emphasis on
the specific distinction between traveling and standing waves. Particular attention has been given to the impact of traveling
Alfvén waves on the steady state anabatic wind that blows over the polar regions (Section~5). We demonstrate the existence
of a wave-induced cold anabatic wind. We also show that, at a critical point, the ponderomotive acceleration of the wind is
a factor of 3 greater than the thermal acceleration. Section 6 demonstrates various manifestations of ponderomotive forces
in the Earth's magnetosphere, for instance the ionospheric plasma acceleration and outflow. The polar wind and the auroral
density cavities are considered in relation to results from the Freja and Viking satellites. The high-altitude energization
and escape of ions is discussed. The ponderomotive anharmonicity of standing Alfvén waves is analyzed from ground based ULF
wave measurements. The complexity of the many challenging problems related with plasma processes near the magnetospheric boundaries
is discussed in the light of recent Cluster observations. At the end of Section 6, we consider the application of ponderomotive
forces to the diversity of phenomena on the Sun, in the interstellar environment, on newborn stars, pulsars and active galaxies.
We emphasize the role of forcing of magnetized plasmas in general and ponderomotive forcing in particular, presenting some
simple conceivable scenarios for massive outflow and jets from astrophysical objects. 相似文献
18.
Daniel W. Swift 《Space Science Reviews》1978,22(1):35-75
The V-shock is identified as the primary mechanism for the acceleration of electrons responsible for the discrete aurora. A brief review of the evidence supporting the V-shock model is given, including the dynamics of auroral striations, anomalous motion of barium plasma at high altitudes and in-situ observations of large electric fields. The V-shock is a nonlinear, n = 0 ion cyclotron mode soliton, Doppler shifted to zero frequency. The V-shock is also shown to be a generalization of the one-dimensional double layer model, which is an ion acoustic soliton Doppler shifted to zero frequency. The essential difference between the double layer theory and the theory for the oblique, current-driven, laminar electrostatic shock is that the plasma dielectric constant in directions perpendicular to the magnetic field is c
2/V
a
/2
, where V
a
is the Alfvén velocity; but the plasma dielectric constant parallel to the magnetic field is unity. Otherwise, in the limit that the shock thickness perpendicular to the magnetic field is much larger than an ion gyroradius, the equations describing the double layer and the oblique shock are the same. The V-shock, while accounting for the acceleration of auroral electrons, requires an energy source and mechanism for generating large potential differences perpendicular to the magnetic field. An energy source is the earthward streaming protons coming from the distant magnetospheric tail. It is shown how these protons can be energized by the cross-tail electric field, which is the tailward extension of the polar cap dawn-to-dusk electric field. The local, large cross-field potential differences associated with the V-shock are seen to be the result of a non-linear, E × B drift turbulent cascade which transfers energy from small- to large-scale sizes. Energy at the smallest scale sizes comes from the kinetic energy in the ion cyclotron motion of the earthward streaming protons, which are unstable against the zero-frequency flute-mode instability. The review points out the gaps in our understanding of the mechanism of the diffuse aurora and the mechanism of the auroral substorm. 相似文献
19.
De Keyser Johan Roth Michel De Sterck Hans Poedts Stefaan 《Space Science Reviews》2001,97(1-4):201-204
We have surveyed solar wind plasma beta and field-aligned Alfvénic Mach number using Ulysses and Wind data. We show the characteristic
timescale and occurrence frequency of ‘magnetically dominated’ solar wind, whose interaction with a planetary magnetosphere
may produce a bow shock with multiple shock fronts. We discuss radial, latitudinal, and solar cycle effects.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
20.
Chian A.C.-L. Borotto F.A. Rempel E.L. Macau E.E.N. Rosa R.R. Christiansen F. 《Space Science Reviews》2003,107(1-2):447-461
Space plasmas are dominated by waves, instabilities and turbulence. Dynamical systems approach offers powerful mathematical
and computational techniques to probe the origin and nature of space environment turbulence. Using the nonlinear dynamics
tools such as the bifurcation diagram and Poincaré maps, we study the transition from order to chaos, from weak to strong
chaos, and the destruction of a chaotic attractor. The characterization of the complex system dynamics of the space environment,
such as the Alfvén turbulence, can improve the capability of monitoring Sun-Earth connections and prediction of space weather.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献