Particle Acceleration by Dense Impulsive Structures Moving in Ambient Magnetospheric Plasma. 3-D Hybrid Kinetic Modeling and MMS Observations
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Lipatov, A. S., Avanov, L. A., & Giles, B. L. (2021). Particle acceleration by dense impulsive structures moving in ambient magnetospheric plasma. 3-D hybrid kinetic modeling and MMS observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL088590. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088590
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High resolution observations of dense plasma impulsive structures moving through an ambient background magnetospheric flows were captured by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission. The observations show particle heating and acceleration, shock-like wave formation, and whistler wave excitation inside the interface between the dense impulsive plasma structures and the ambient plasma. A multiscale hybrid kinetic simulation provides an explanation of the observed wave-particle interactions with the assumption that the dense plasma structures may be represented by plasma clouds which are formed at the magnetopause layer due to reconnection processes.