Upstream proton cyclotron waves at Venus     

M. Delva  T.L. Zhang  C.T. Russell 《Planetary and Space Science》2008,56(9):1293-1299

Data from the magnetometer MAG aboard the Venus Express S/C are investigated for the occurrence of cyclotron wave phenomena upstream of the Venus bow shock. For an unmagnetized planet such as Venus and Mars the neutral exosphere extends into the on-flowing solar wind and pick-up processes can play an important role in the removal of particles from the atmosphere. At Mars upstream proton cyclotron waves were observed but at Venus they were not yet detected. From the MAG data of the first 4 months in orbit we report the occurrence of proton cyclotron waves well upstream from the planet, both outside and inside of the planetary foreshock region; pick-up protons generate specific cyclotron waves already far from the bow shock. This provides direct evidence that the solar wind is removing hydrogen from the Venus exosphere. Determining the role the solar wind plays in the escape of particles from the total planetary atmosphere is an important step towards understanding the evolution of the environmental conditions on Venus. The continual observations of the Venus Express mission will allow mapping the volume of escape more accurately, and determine better the present rate of hydrogen loss.  相似文献   

Energization of positive ions in the cometary foreshock region     

E. Amata  V. Formisano 《Planetary and Space Science》1985,33(11):1243-1250

The energization of positive ions in front of a cometary bow shock is investigated. Ions produced by ionization of the cometary neutrals interact with the solar wind protons to produce, among other waves, large amplitude oscillations of the ambient magnetic field. Such oscillations are convected towards the comet at the unperturbed solar wind speed far from the shock and at a lower speed closer to the shock (due to the solar wind mass loading) ; hence, they can energize the suprathermal ions by Fermi acceleration. The spatial extension of the acceleration region is of the order of 10⁶ km and the resulting ion energy spectrum is harder than in the Earth's bow shock case. The energization of cometary ions produces an additional deceleration of the solar wind, such that the cometary bow shock of Halley-type comet may be regarded as a “cosmic ray shock”.  相似文献   

On the generation of low-frequency waves in the solar wind in the front of the bow shock     

M.S. Kovner  V.V. Lebedev  T.A. Plyasova-Bakounina  V.A. Troitskaya 《Planetary and Space Science》1976,24(3):261-267

The generation of low-frequency waves in the solar wind by the flux of protons accelerated in the magnetosheath is considered. It is shown that pulsations are produced in two partly overlapping frequency ranges. The growth rate of waves is maximal when the angle θ between the direction of the interplanetary magnetic field and the front of the bow shock is not equal $\text{π}\text{2}$. The dependence of the increment of perturbation on the solar wind velocity is analysed. A satisfactory agreement between theory and experimental results on the connection of Pc3–4 properties and parameters of the solar wind is obtained.  相似文献   

On the smooth surface of the northern bow shock of Mars,based on Mars Global Surveyor's measurements     

Sergis  N.  Moussas  X. 《Solar physics》2001,201(1):191-200

A very smooth and time-invariable bow shock of Mars is revealed using Mars Global Surveyor's data. The bow-shock position has been identified using magnetic and electron flux data obtained by the Magnetometer and Electron Reflectometer (MAG/ER) experiment aboard Mars Global Surveyor, in the time period between days 87 and 255 of 1998. From the magnetic field and the electron flux measurements, 148 bow-shock crossings were detected, concentrated mostly on the northern hemisphere of the planet. With these results, a 3D configuration of the bow shock is constructed and presented. The results show that part of the observed bow shock is a surprisingly smooth surface. It is possible that the bow shock is smooth only in the northern hemisphere, since the southern surface is characterized by local magnetic anomalies. Its real shape can only be revealed in a 3D representation in the planetary centered solar ecliptic coordinate system and questions the theoretically expected variation of the bow shock.  相似文献   

Analysis of the H ring velocity distribution function near the Martian and Venusian bow shocks by an analytical model     

E. Kallio  M. Yamauchi 《Planetary and Space Science》2008,56(6):818-822

We have studied the H⁺ velocity distribution function at Mars and Venus near the bow shock both in the solar wind and in the magnetosheath by a simple analytical one-dimensional model. We found that over half of the ions in the ring velocity distribution which moved towards the magnetosheath were scattered back into the bow shock. The original ring distribution is destroyed in less than an ion gyro period. Ions contained in the magnetosphere which hit the bow shock bounce back into the solar wind with a maximum energy exceeding twice the energy of solar wind protons. The ions finite gyroradius causes an asymmetric flow in the magnetosheath with respect to the direction of the convective electric field, which can be observed already a few ion gyroradius downstream of the bow shock.  相似文献   

Evidence for accelerated electrons upstream from Jupiter's bow shock: Ulysses results     

P. Chaizy  K.A. Anderson  J. Sommers  R.P. Lin   《Planetary and Space Science》1993,41(11-12)

Several transient increases of electrons with energies in the range 40–100 keV have been detected upstream and immediately downstream from the Jovian bow shock (and only in these regions), by instruments on the Ulysses spacecraft during February 1992. The energy spectra of these electrons differ markedly from the energy spectrum of the trapped magnetospheric electrons measured by the same instrument. Two populations of the upstream electrons were identified. Type I electrons appear at times when the direction of the interplanetary magnetic field at the spacecraft could have been tangent to the Jovian bow shock surface thus paralleling, for the first time at another planetary bow shock, the rather well understood situation at Earth's bow shock. Type II electrons have the same energy spectrum as Type I electrons, but are not so clearly associated with the tangent field-line condition. They occur at high southerly latitudes only while the Type I electrons are detected both on the inbound and outbound passages. Type II electrons have never been reported at the Earth's bow shock or any other planetary bow shock. Under the assumption that the field line that goes through Ulysses connects to the bow shock in a straight line, two possible explanations for the Type II electrons may be: (1) very large distortions of the bow shock surface, perhaps caused by deformations of the magnetopause, may permit the tangent condition; and (2) upstream electrons are preferentially, but not necessarily, accelerated when the IMF is tangent to the bow-shock surface.  相似文献   

Impact of a Rotational Discontinuity of the Solar Windon the Earth's Bow Shock     

Eugene A. Pushkar' 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2000,274(1-2):431-437

The interaction of a rotational (plane-polarized) discontinuity A of the solar wind with the Earth's bow shock S _b is studied in the parametric form. The velocity of displacement of the bow shock is estimated. An asymmetry of the impact on the flanks of S _b and an appreciable contribution of slow MHD waves to the process considered are revealed. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Pulsations in the solar wind and on the ground     

T.A. Plyasova-Bakounina  Yu.V. Golkov  V.A. Troitskaya  P.C. Hedgecock 《Planetary and Space Science》1978,26(6):547-553

Measurements of the pulsation activity recorded by the HEOS-1 satellite in the solar wind upstream from the Earth's bow shock are compared with records of Pc 3–4 activity at the Soviet Borok Observatory. Selecting only events in the 0300–1000 U.T. range most suitable for observing at Borok, we obtained eight events with closely similar periods at the satellite and at Borok, while another event showed similar onset times but had rather different dominant periodicities at the two locations.The time delay between the start of the event at HEOS and at Borok depends on the distance between the satellite and the bow shock in a way which suggests that the pulsation activity at the satellite is produced by protons which are counter-streaming along the interplanetary field lines as a result of reflection or energisation at the shock. When the interplanetary field is directed away from the Sun, the period of the disturbance at Borok is most closely similar to the period at HEOS and both are inversely proportional to the magnitude of the interplanetary magnetic field. This coincident dominant periodicity at HEOS and Borok did not seem to exist during periods of Sunward directed interplanetary field.These results are discussed in terms of the possible generating mechanisms for Pc 3–4 activity.  相似文献   

Cometosheath Structures and Tail Rays: Outcome of bi-ion Fluid Simulations     

Sauer  K.  Dubinin  E. 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1997,77(3):271-278

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Initial Venus Express magnetic field observations of the Venus bow shock location at solar minimum     

T.L. Zhang  M. Delva  M. Volwerk  S. Barabash  S. Pope  K. Kudela  Z. Vörös 《Planetary and Space Science》2008,56(6):785-789

In this study, magnetic field measurements obtained by the Venus Express spacecraft are used to determine the bow shock position at solar minimum. The best fit of bow shock location from solar zenith angle 20-120° gives a terminator bow shock location of 2.14 R_V (1 R_V=6052 km) which is 1600 km closer to Venus than the 2.40 R_V determined during solar maximum conditions, a clear indication of the solar cycle variation of the Venus bow shock location. The best fit to the subsolar bow shock is 1.32 R_V, with the bow shock completely detached. Finally, a global bow shock model at solar minimum is constructed based on our best-fit empirical bow shock in the sunlit hemisphere and an asymptotic limit of the distant bow shock which is a Mach cone under typical Mach number of 5.5 at solar minimum. We also describe our approach to making the measurements and processing the data in a challenging magnetic cleanliness environment. An initial evaluation of the accuracy of measurements shows that the data are of a quality comparable to magnetic field measurements made onboard magnetically clean spacecraft.  相似文献   

Propagation of low energy protons associated with the 24 January 1969 solar flare     

A. Balogh  P. C. Hedgecock  R. J. Hynds  J. Sear 《Solar physics》1971,20(1):150-165

This paper presents directional low energy solar proton measurements together with inter-planetary magnetic field measurements. Propagation of 1 to 13 MeV solar protons is discussed in terms of the relative importance of field-aligned streaming compared to convection of the proton population in the solar wind. Evidence is presented to show that protons associated with the January 24, 1969 solar flare were stored near the Sun for at least 90 minutes. It is also shown that under favourable conditions solar protons can be accelerated near the Earth's bow shock. The decay of solar protons is shown to be mainly convective; however, there are indications that in smooth field regimes convection of 1 MeV solar protons can be greatly reduced. Finally, it is pointed out that the effect of adiabatic deceleration can be quite important.  相似文献   

Bow shock protons in the lunar environment     

J. Benson  J. W. Freeman  H. K. Hills  R. R. Vondrak 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1975,14(1):19-25

Protons from the Earth's bow shock are observed by the Suprathermal Ion detector Experiment (SIDE) in two regions of the lunar orbit. The dawn region begins at the dawn side bow shock crossing and ends ç 5 days later and the dusk region begins at ç 2 days prior to entering the dusk side magnetosheath and ends at the inbound bow shock crossing. Dusk and dawn refer to a terrestrial coordinate system. The dominant contribution to the ion spectra observed by the SIDE in these regions is from particles with energies between ç 750 eV q^–1 and 3500 eV q^–1. 3500 eVq^–1 is the upper limit of the energy range of the detector. Analysis of simultaneous data from the Explorer 35 magnetometer and the SIDE indicates that the observability of bow shock protons at the lunar distance is dependent on the configuration of the interplanetary magnetic field.Paper presented at the Conference on Interactions of the Interplanetary Plasma with the Modern and Ancient Moon, sponsored by the Lunar Science Institute, Houston, Texas and held at the Lake Geneva Campus of George Williams College, Wisconsin, between September 30 and October 4, 1974.  相似文献   

Alfvén wave plasma turbulence during solar wind-comet interaction     

Frank Verheest 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1987,138(1):209-215

The large differences in drift velocities between the solar wind protons and the picked-up ions of cometary origin cause the Alfvén waves (among others) to become unstable and generate turbulence. A self-consistent treatment of such instabilities has to take into account that these cometary ions affect the solar wind plasma in a decisive way. With the help of a previously developed formalism one finds the correct Alfvén instability criterion, which is here nondispersive, in contrast to recent calculations where the cometary ions are treated as a low-density, high-speed, and non-neutral beam through an otherwise undisturbed solar wind. The true bulk speed of the combined solar wind plus cometary ion plasma clearly shows the mass-loading and deceleration of the solar wind near the cometary nucleus, indicating a bow shock. The instability criterion is also used to determine the region upstream where the Alfvén waves can be unstable, based upon recent observations near comet Halley.  相似文献   

Martian shock and magnetic pile-up boundary positions and shapes determined from the Phobos 2 and Mars Global Surveyor data sets     

J.G. Trotignon  C. Mazelle  M.H. Acuña 《Planetary and Space Science》2006,54(4):357-369

A great many Martian bow shock and magnetic pile-up boundary crossings have been identified in the Phobos 2 and Mars Global Surveyor, MGS, data. From these observations the positions and shapes of the bow shock and magnetic pile-up boundary, MPB, have been derived and modelled, using curve-fitting techniques. The models thus derived separately from the Phobos 2 and MGS data sets do not differ drastically, despite the different time and space data coverages. The purpose of the paper is therefore to show the results obtained from the mixing of the Phobos 2 and MGS data bases and to compare the derived bow shock and MPB models with the ones obtained previously. The underlying objective was to see whether it was possible to determine improved bow shock and MPB models or not. The answer is definitely yes, and particularly for the MPB, thanks to the complementary nature of the observations. The boundaries crossed close to the subsolar direction or mostly far downstream by Phobos 2 indeed allow a better coverage of the Martian space environment to be considered. Nevertheless, in order to reduce the domination of the overabundant MGS data set and/or the crossings that are close to Mars (x>−4 R_M, i.e. x>−13 562 km) weighting factors have been introduced.  相似文献   

Directional diffusion coefficients of solar protons inside and outside the bow shock     

P. Verzariu  S.M. Krimigis 《Planetary and Space Science》1973,21(6):971-982

The directional diffusion coefficients of low-energy (? 0.3 MeV) solar protons inside and outside the bow shock are examined during the solar flare event of 24 January 1969. The data are derived from simultaneous observations obtained by Explorer 33 inside the magnetosheath and by Explorer 35 in the interplanetary medium. Although the gross properties of the spin-averaged intensities on a diffusion-type plot appear to be the same in both media, the directional intensities show significant variations. It is shown that directional intensities of low-energy protons can be described reasonably well by anisotropic diffusion with an associated diffusion coefficient. Directional diffusion coefficients are found to differ by a factor as much as three among different directions in space, and from the spin-averaged diffusion coefficient. This suggests that anisotropic diffusion does indeed take place and that so called ‘isotropic’ diffusion coefficients derived in the past from spin-averaged intensities may actually be directional diffusion coefficients in cases where substantial anisotropies (> 50 per cent) exist. The typical postulated ratio of field aligned to cross-field diffusion coefficients is $\text{κ⊥}\text{κ∥}\text{< 0.1}$. The present data would indicate a ratio of ?0.3. This value of the anisotropy is to be taken only as an upper limit of the ratio because of the limitations introduced by the wide field of view of the detectors (~90°) and the lack of directional measurements over the entire sphere. Comparison between directional diffusion coefficients in the interplanetary medium and magnetosheath derived from identical directions in space implies changes in the parameters of the interplanetary magnetic field as it interacts with the bow shock.  相似文献   

Sources of SEP Acceleration during a Flare – CME Event     

N. J. Lehtinen  S. Pohjolainen  K. Huttunen-Heikinmaa  R. Vainio  E. Valtonen  A. E. Hillaris 《Solar physics》2008,247(1):151-169

A high-speed, halo-type coronal mass ejection (CME), associated with a GOES M4.6 soft X-ray flare in NOAA AR 0180 at S12W29 and an EIT wave and dimming, occurred on 9 November 2002. A complex radio event was observed during the same period. It included narrow-band fluctuations and frequency-drifting features in the metric wavelength range, type III burst groups at metric – hectometric wavelengths, and an interplanetary type II radio burst, which was visible in the dynamic radio spectrum below 14 MHz. To study the association of the recorded solar energetic particle (SEP) populations with the propagating CME and flaring, we perform a multi-wavelength analysis using radio spectral and imaging observations combined with white-light, EUV, hard X-ray, and magnetogram data. Velocity dispersion analysis of the particle distributions (SOHO and Wind in situ observations) provides estimates for the release times of electrons and protons. Our analysis indicates that proton acceleration was delayed compared to the electrons. The dynamics of the interplanetary type II burst identify the burst source as a bow shock created by the fast CME. The type III burst groups, with start times close to the estimated electron-release times, trace electron beams travelling along open field lines into the interplanetary space. The type III bursts seem to encounter a steep density gradient as they overtake the type II shock front, resulting in an abrupt change in the frequency drift rate of the type III burst emission. Our study presents evidence in support of a scenario in which electrons are accelerated low in the corona behind the CME shock front, while protons are accelerated later, possibly at the CME bow shock high in the corona.  相似文献   

Interaction of interplanetary shocks with the bow shock     

J. &#x;afrnkov  Z. Nme ek  L. P&#x;ech  A.A. Samsonov  A. Koval  K. Andreov 《Planetary and Space Science》2007,55(15):2324-2329

Fast forward interplanetary (IP) shocks have been identified as a source of large geomagnetic disturbances. However, the shocks can evolve in the solar wind, they are modified by interaction with the bow shock and during their propagation through the magnetosheath. A few previous papers refer the inclination and deceleration of the IP shock front in this region. Our contribution continues this effort and presents the study of an IP shock interaction with the bow shock. Since the bow shock is a reversed fast shock, the interaction of the IP shock and bow shock is a problem of interaction of two fast MHD shocks.

We compare profiles of magnetic field and plasma parameters observed by several spacecraft in the solar wind and magnetosheath with the profiles of the same parameters resulting from the MHD numerical model. The MHD model suggests that the interaction of an IP shock with the bow shock results in an inward bow shock displacement that is followed by its outward motion. Such motion will result in an indentation propagating along the bow shock surface. This scenario is confirmed by multipoint observations. Moreover, the model confirms also previous suggestions on the IP shock deceleration in the magnetosheath.  相似文献   

Observations of electron plasma waves upstream of the Jovian bow shock     

P. Canu  N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin  C. de Villedary  P.J. Kellogg  C.C. Harvey  R.J. MacDowall 《Planetary and Space Science》1993,41(11-12)

The Ulysses spacecraft encountered the planet Jupiter in February 1992, on its journey towards high heliospheric latitude. During the approach to the planet, as well as on the outbound pass, while receding from the Jovian bow shock, the Plasma Frequency Receiver that is part of the Unified Radio and Plasma Wave experiment (URAP) recorded bursts of plasma waves in the frequency range of a few kHz. These emissions, first observed by the PWS experiment onboard the Voyager spacecraft, have been identified as upstream electron plasma waves. In this paper, we present the first analysis of the characteristics of these emissions, which are very similar to those found in the Earth's electron foreshock, upstream of the Earth's bow shock. These bursty emissions, with a peak frequency very close to the local electron plasma frequency F_pe, have a typical electric field amplitude in the range 0.01–0.1 mV m⁻¹, with some bursts above 1 mV m⁻¹. The frequency bandwidth over which significant power can be found above the instrument background noise ranges from below 0.2 F_pc to about 2 F_pc. On the basis of our present knowledge of similar emissions observed at Earth, we suggest that the broadband emissions are triggered by suprathermal (a few tens of eV) electrons, streaming back from Jupiter's bow shock.  相似文献   

Origin of 30 ∼ 100 kev protons observed in the upstream region of the Earth's bow shock     

T. Terasawa 《Planetary and Space Science》1979,27(4):365-384

a Fermi-type acceleration model is constructed to explain the origin of energetic protons (30 ～ 100 keV) which have been observed upstream of the bow shock. It is shown that the suprathermal protons (with energy of several keV) can be accelerated up to several tens of keV through the Fermi-type process in which the reflection at the shock front and the scattering in the upstream region are coupled. The efficiency of the scattering process is estimated by using the result of Barnes' quasilinear treatment of the wave excitation. The resultant energy spectrum and flux intensity ($\text{10}{}^3\text{～ 10}{}^4\text{protons}\text{(}\text{cm}{}^2\text{s ster keV}$) in 32 ～ 45.3keV) are consistent with the observation, and the softening of the energy spectrum observed in the dawn region can be explained by the decrease in the efficiency of the acceleration process in the dawn region due to the curvature of the bow shock and the reduction of shock strength. The spatial distribution of the flux predicted by the model is also consistent with the observation. In view of these consistencies the Fermi-type acceleration process is suggested as a possible candidate mechanism to explain the upstream protons although we do not intend to exclude other possibilities.  相似文献   

Electron plasma oscillations associated with type III radio emissions and solar electrons     

D. A. Gurnett  L. A. Frank 《Solar physics》1975,45(2):477-493

An extensive study of the IMP-6 and IMP-8 plasma and radio wave data has been performed to try to find electron plasma oscillations associated with type III radio noise bursts and low-energy solar electrons. This study shows that electron plasma oscillations are seldom observed in association with solar electron events and type III radio bursts at 1.0 AU. In nearly four years of observations only one event was found in which electron plasma oscillations are clearly associated with solar electrons. For this event the plasma oscillations appeared coincident with the development of a secondary maximum in the electron velocity distribution functions due to solar electrons streaming outwards from the Sun. Numerous cases were found in which no electron plasma oscillations with field strengths greater than 1 μV m^?1 could be detected even though electrons from the solar flare were clearly detected at the spacecraft. For the one case in which electron plasma oscillations are definitely produced by the electrons ejected by the solar flare the electric field strength is relatively small, only about 100 μV m^?1. This field strength is about a factor of ten smaller than the amplitude of electron plasma oscillations generated by electrons streaming into the solar wind from the bow shock. Electromagnetic radiation, believed to be similar to the type III radio emission, is also observed coming from the region of the more intense electron plasma oscillations upstream of the bow shock. Quantitative calculations of the rate of conversion of the plasma oscillation energy to electromagnetic radiation are presented for plasma oscillations excited by both solar electrons and electrons from the bow shock. These calculations show that neither the type III radio emissions nor the radiation from upstream of the bow shock can be adequately explained by a current theory for the coupling of electron plasma oscillations to electromagnetic radiation. Possible ways of resolving these difficulties are discussed.  相似文献