Laser plasma simulations of the generation processes of Alfven and collisionless shock waves in space plasma

Prokopov, P. A.; Zakharov, Yu. P.; Tishchenko, V. N.; Шайхисламов, И. Ф.; Boyarintsev, E. L.; Мелехов, А. В.; Ponomarenko, A. G.; Posukh, V. G.; Terekhin, V. A.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/769/1/012086

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“…This mechanism, known as Larmor coupling, has been investigated by Bashurin et al (1983), Hewett et al (2011) and more recently by Bondarenko et al (2017b). It has also been recently demonstrated in the laboratory using ion spectroscopy (Bondarenko et al, 2017a) as well as with ion current probes (Prokopov et al, 2016). It is to be noted that because the background ions continue to carry momentum and energy outward, at the cavity boundary the magnetic disturbance does not stop but continues propagating outward as a collisionless shock wave.…”

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Recalling and Updating Research on Diamagnetic Cavities: Experiments, Theory, Simulations

Winske

Huba

Niemann

et al. 2019

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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In the decade from the mid 80's to the mid 90's there was considerable interest in the generation of diamagnetic cavities produced by the sub-Alfvenic expansion of heavy ions across a background magnetic field. Examples included the AMPTE and CRRES barium releases in the magnetotail and magnetosphere as well as laser experiments at various laboratories in the United States and the Soviet Union. In all of these experiments field-aligned striations and other small-scale structures were produced as the cavities formed. Local and non-local linear theory as well as full particle (PIC), hybrid, and Hall-MHD simulations (mostly 2-D) were developed and used to understand at least qualitatively the features of these experiments. Much of this review is a summary of this work, with the addition of some new 3-D PIC and Hall-MHD simulations that clarify old issues associated with the origin and evolution of cavities and their surface features. In the last part of this review we discuss recent extensions of the earlier efforts: new space observations of cavity-like structures as well as new laboratory experiments and calculations with greatly improved diagnostics of cavities formed by expansions of laserproduced ions at super-Alfvenic speeds both across and along the background magnetic field.

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Recalling and Updating Research on Diamagnetic Cavities: Experiments, Theory, Simulations

Winske

Huba

Niemann

et al. 2019

Front. Astron. Space Sci.

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“…The study of global macroscopic configuration of expanding plasma cloud within ambient magnetospheric plasmas and excitation of low‐frequency instabilities were performed with MHD modeling (Ripin et al., 1987, 1993; Woolsey et al., 2001), however the study of particle acceleration and effects of the non‐Maxwellian ion velocity distribution functions (VDF's) requires hybrid kinetic simulations (Antonov et al., 1985; Bashurin et al., 1983; Berezin et al., 1992; Cohen et al., 2019; Golubev et al., 1978; Hewett et al., 2011; Lipatov, 1996, 2002; Lipatov et al., 1994; Winske & Cowee, 2012; Winske & Gary, 2007) and the use of the laboratory installations for a study of these phenomena (e.g., LAPD (UCLA) (Niemann et al., 2013) and KI‐1 installation of the Institute of Laser Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk (Prokopov et al., 2016; Zakharov et al., 2014)). There are basic questions need to be answered concerning the particle heating and acceleration, an excitation of the whistler and Alfvén waves at oblique and quasi‐parallel shocks which are formed by the expanding plasma cloud.…”

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Hybrid Kinetic Model of the Interaction Between the Dense Plasma Clouds and Magnetospheric Plasma on Large Time and Spatial Scales, and Comparison With MMS Observations

2022

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The plasma processes in the environment of the dense plasma cloud moving in the dayside magnetospheric plasma was studied by a use of unique MMS spacecraft observations and hybrid multiscale modeling on the large spatial and time scales. The results presented will be important for understanding particle acceleration, low-frequency wave excitation and global instability of the plasma configuration during active space plasma experiments, under astrophysical explosions, and plasma systems with reversed magnetic field configuration. The results will be also important for understanding the plasma environment of planetary moon moving through magnetospheric plasma (e.g., Io, Europa, Titan and the Moon).Extremely dense impulses were observed by MMS spacecraft (Burch et al., 2016) when the spacecraft was located at the dawn-side terminator as shown in Figure 1 (left) from Lipatov et al. (2021). The plasma data are provided by the Fast Plasma Investigation (FPI) (Pollock et al., 2016), while the magnetic field data are produced by the two MMS flux-gate magnetometers (Russell et al., 2016). Figure 1, panels (b-f) shows the plasma data which were received in the burst mode with time resolution 150 ms inside 3 min interval centered at the density peak. There were no significant perturbations in the solar wind observed in the OMNI WIND data (not shown here), however, the interplanetary magnetic field component Bz component was strictly negative that suggests an intensive reconnection at the subsolar magnetopause. The time interval between strong density peaks in panel (a) are about 20-30 min. In previous paper by Lipatov et al. (2021) the same data sets from MMS have been used together with a hybrid simulation to reveal what processes can occur when dense plasma cloud moves in ambient magnetospheric plasma on small time scale.According to the paper by Akhavan-Tafti et al. (2018) these impulsive structures can be created by moving flux transfer events (FTE's) or by magnetic reconnection inside the magnetopause current layer, or by mirror wave instabilities inside the low latitude boundary layer. They estimated the size, core magnetic field strength and magnetic flux content, and concluded that spacecraft trajectory most likely passed through these structures. Statistical analysis gives the following mean diameter of these impulsive structures 1, 700 ± 400 km. The average magnetic flux content is of 100 ± 30 kWb. However, the source and formation of these clouds within the magnetopause is out of scope of our paper.

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“…When an incident laser beam propagates through plasma, Singh and Sharma [27] found that the laser beam decays into an upper-hybrid wave and a magnetosonic wave at terahertz frequency. There are many studies on the different kinds of waves existing in laser-plasma and interstellar space such as the magnetosonic wave [27][28][29], Alfvén waves [30], the upper-hybrid wave (UHW) [27,31] and ion acoustic waves [28,29,[32][33][34]. It has also been justified [35] that Alfvén waves are generated by fast magnetosonic waves.…”

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Modulational instability of the coupled waves between fast magnetosonic wave and slow Alfvén wave in the laser–plasma interaction

Wang¹,

Han²,

Duan³

2020

Plasma Sci. Technol.

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By performing modulational instability analysis of the the nonlinear coupled dimensionless equations between a fast magnetosonic wave (FMSW) propagating obliquely with the magnetic field and a low-frequency slow Alfvén wave (SAW), we obtain the dispersion relation of the perturbation wave. The growth rate of the perturbation wave is obtained. It is found that the growth rate increases as background magnetic field increases, which is in agreement with that reported by Tiwary et al (2016 Phys. Plasmas 23 122307). A critical perturbation wave number is found. When the perturbation wave number is greater than or equal to the critical value, the growth rate is positive and it increases as the perturbation wave number increases, while the wave is stable. The maximum growth rate is reached when the frequency of the FMSW is half of the ion cyclotron frequency. The minimum growth rate is reached when the propagation direction of the perturbation wave is the same as that of the FMSW.

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Laser plasma simulations of the generation processes of Alfven and collisionless shock waves in space plasma

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Recalling and Updating Research on Diamagnetic Cavities: Experiments, Theory, Simulations

Recalling and Updating Research on Diamagnetic Cavities: Experiments, Theory, Simulations

Hybrid Kinetic Model of the Interaction Between the Dense Plasma Clouds and Magnetospheric Plasma on Large Time and Spatial Scales, and Comparison With MMS Observations

Modulational instability of the coupled waves between fast magnetosonic wave and slow Alfvén wave in the laser–plasma interaction

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