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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
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宇宙の天気,宇宙の天気 マグネトテイル再接続のアイオノスフィアの制御
William Lotko1, Ryan H Smith2, Binzheng Zhang2
1Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. Research Affiliate, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA. wlotko@dartmouth.edu.
まとめ
地球の磁気尾の高速プラズマフローは,磁気再接続により,夜前セクターに集中しています. グローバルシミュレーションでは,ホール伝導度グラデーションによって引き起こされるイオン圏-磁気圏の相互作用が,観測されたこの非対称性を引き起こしていることが明らかになっています.
科学分野:
- 宇宙物理学 宇宙物理学
- プラズマ物理学 プラズマ物理学
- 地質物理学 地質物理学とは地質物理学です.
背景:
- 高速のプラズマ流は,地球の磁気尾中性シート (10-30 R(E)) で観測されています.
- これらの流れは,磁気再接続の結果であり,磁気エネルギーをプラズマ運動エネルギーおよび熱エネルギーに変換します.
- 観測された流れ分布は,特に夜前セクターに偏っている.
研究 の 目的:
- マグネトテイル・プラズマの流れにおける観測された非対称性の原因を調査する.
- この現象における磁気圏とイオノスフィアの結合の役割を理解するために.
主な方法:
- 地球の磁気圏とイオノスフィアのグローバル数値シミュレーションを利用した.
- 磁気圏とイオン圏の構成要素の電気動力学的相互作用を分析した.
- 電流分布に対するイオノスフィアの伝導度グラデーションの影響を調査した.
主要な成果:
- シミュレーションは,ナイトサイド再接続とプラズマシートフローで観測された午前の非対称性を再現します.
- 磁気圏とイオノスフィアの間の電動相互作用が原因とされている.
- イオノスフィアのホール伝導度におけるメリディアングラデントは,カウリング効果を介して,電流を調節する.
結論:
- イオノスフィアのホール伝導度グラデーションによって引き起こされるカウリング効果は,マグネトテイルプラズマの流れの午前の非対称性を説明する.
- マグネトスフィア-イオノスフィアの電動力学は,磁気尾のプラズマ流の分布を理解するために重要である.
- この発見は,シミュレーション結果を,磁気尾の動力学に関する観測データと調和させています.
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