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Simulations of ion cyclotron anisotropy instabilities in the terrestrial magnetosheathEnhanced transverse magnetic fluctuations observed below the proton cyclotron frequency in the terrestrial magnetosheath have been identified as due to the proton cyclotron and helium cyclotron instabilities driven by the T-perpendicular greater than T-parallel condition of the sheath ions. One-dimensional hybrid computer simulations are used here to examine the nonlinear properties of these two growing modes at relatively weak fluctuation energies and for wave vectors parallel to the background magnetic field. Second-order theory predicts fluctuating magnetic field energies at saturation of the proton cyclotron anisotropy instability in semiquantitative agreement with the simulation results. Introduction of the helium component enhances the wave-particle exchange rate for proton anisotropy reduction by that instability, thereby reducing the saturation energy of that mode. The simulations demonstrate that wave-particle interactions by the proton cyclotron and helium cyclotron instabilities lead to the anticorrelation observed by Anderson and Fuselier (1993).
Document ID
19930060105
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Gary, S. P.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Winske, Dan
(Los Alamos National Lab. NM, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
June 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 98
Issue: A6
ISSN: 0148-0227
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
93A44102
Distribution Limits
Public
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