Evidence for a high‐energy tail associated with foreshock field‐aligned beams
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Abstract
The reduced particle distributions of field‐aligned beams observed upstream of the bow shock are examined in detail using Cluster spacecraft. We find that the reduced parallel and perpendicular distribution forms can be strongly geometry‐dependent. Above a certain critical value of the angle between the local shock normal and the direction of the magnetic field, θ Bn , the reduced distributions are remarkably well fit by Maxwellians. We have not found any significant changes to the spread in energies for beams at higher values of θ Bn . When the angle θ Bn decreases, leading to smaller beam velocities, a high‐energy tail in the distribution appears. When the tail is present, the bulk of the distribution remains Maxwellian. The development of the high‐energy tail is well correlated with decreases in the beam speed (or equivalently θ Bn ). Moreover, detailed examination of the angular distributions indicates that particles in the tails of the distributions propagate at significant pitch angles with respect to the magnetic field (are not field‐aligned, as are those within the bulk of the distribution) and that these pitch angles are energy‐dependent. These new observations do not fit any production mechanism expected at the shock or result from known wave‐particle interactions upstream of or within the shock layer.
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| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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