論文

査読有り
2017年6月

Impact of substorm time O+ outflow on ring current enhancement

JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
  • Y. Nakayama
  • ,
  • Y. Ebihara
  • ,
  • M. C. Fok
  • ,
  • T. Tanaka

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1002/2016JA023766
出版者・発行元
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION

Energetic O+ ions (tens of keV) rapidly increase in the inner magnetosphere and contribute significantly to the ring current during substorms. Previously, two source regions of the energetic O+ ions have been proposed. The first one is the dayside polar region. Ions from the dayside polar region are transported to the lobe; then they are injected to the nightside plasma sheet during substorm expansion phase. The second one is the nightside aurora region. After the substorm onset, energetic O+ ions are extracted from the ionosphere with the auroral acceleration processes, and the O+ ions are directly supplied to the nightside plasma sheet. We investigated the relative importance of these two regions on supplying the energetic O+ ions in the inner magnetosphere. We performed a test particle simulation in global MHD electromagnetic fields. We obtained the following results. (1) During the substorm growth phase, O+ ions at tens of eV are extracted from the dayside polar region, resulting in the enhancement of the warm O+ ions (hundreds of eV) in the lobe. After the substorm onset, the warm O+ ions are nonadiabatically accelerated to tens of keV and injected to the inner magnetosphere. These O+ ions contribute to most of the O+ ring current. (2) O+ ions at < a few keVs are supplied from the nightside aurora region to the plasma sheet. However, their contribution to the O+ ring current remains small. From the results, we concluded that the main source of the energetic O+ ions is the dayside polar region.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JA023766
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000405534800027&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1002/2016JA023766
  • ISSN : 2169-9380
  • eISSN : 2169-9402
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000405534800027

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