Nature Communications (Oct 2022)
Direct observations of energy transfer from resonant electrons to whistler-mode waves in magnetosheath of Earth
- N. Kitamura,
- T. Amano,
- Y. Omura,
- S. A. Boardsen,
- D. J. Gershman,
- Y. Miyoshi,
- M. Kitahara,
- Y. Katoh,
- H. Kojima,
- S. Nakamura,
- M. Shoji,
- Y. Saito,
- S. Yokota,
- B. L. Giles,
- W. R. Paterson,
- C. J. Pollock,
- A. C. Barrie,
- D. G. Skeberdis,
- S. Kreisler,
- O. Le Contel,
- C. T. Russell,
- R. J. Strangeway,
- P.-A. Lindqvist,
- R. E. Ergun,
- R. B. Torbert,
- J. L. Burch
Affiliations
- N. Kitamura
- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
- T. Amano
- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo
- Y. Omura
- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
- S. A. Boardsen
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- D. J. Gershman
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Y. Miyoshi
- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
- M. Kitahara
- Department of Geophysics, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University
- Y. Katoh
- Department of Geophysics, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University
- H. Kojima
- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
- S. Nakamura
- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
- M. Shoji
- Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University
- Y. Saito
- Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- S. Yokota
- Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
- B. L. Giles
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- W. R. Paterson
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- C. J. Pollock
- Denali Scientific
- A. C. Barrie
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- D. G. Skeberdis
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- S. Kreisler
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- O. Le Contel
- Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris-Saclay/Observatoire de Paris/Ecole Polytechnique Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- C. T. Russell
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California
- R. J. Strangeway
- Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science, University of California
- P.-A. Lindqvist
- Royal Institute of Technology
- R. E. Ergun
- Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado
- R. B. Torbert
- Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire
- J. L. Burch
- Southwest Research Institute
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33604-2
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Excitation of whistler-mode waves by cyclotron instability is considered as the likely generation process of the waves. Here, the authors show direct observational evidence for locally ongoing secular energy transfer from the resonant electrons to the whistler-mode waves in Earth’s magnetosheath.