用粒子模拟方法研究离子声波

<正>向传播朗缪尔波被离子声波散射是太阳射电Ⅲ型暴基波和谐波激发的重要过程.使用粒子模拟方法对电子束流激发朗缪尔波的过程进行了模拟,同时对产生的反向朗缪尔波、朗缪尔波2次谐波和朗缪尔波通过非线性过程产生的离子声波的性质进行了分析研究.为了更好地研究离子声波,模拟时单独计算了由离子扰动引起的电场.模拟计算了不同初始参数下产生的离子声波强度,发现离子的温度和质量对离子声波的产生有重要作用,验证了反向朗缪尔波与离子声波的相关性.同时在模拟中验证了朗缪尔波的衰变过程,确认了离子声波对反向朗缪尔波的放大作用.     

Temperature waves in the solar atmosphere

The properties of five-minute temperature waves in the photosphere are investigated. The phase and amplitude relations of temperature and acoustic waves are deduced. It is expected that the five-minute oscillations represent a mixture of acoustic and temperature waves. The temperature waves are generated due to linear interaction with acoustic waves.It is well known that concurrent with the acoustic waves, temperature or heat waves can appear in the case of nonadiabatic disturbances (Landau and Lifshitz, 1959). The temperature waves are dissipative damped waves. Propagation of nonadiabatic hydrodynamic waves in a stratified medium have been considered by Zhugzdha (1983). If stratification of heat exchange exists, a linear interaction of hydrodynamic and temperature waves arises. The temperature waves must be present in the solar atmosphere.     

Turbulence Heating for Protons in High-Speed Solar Wind

In high-speed solar wind, propagating Alfvén waves can be transferred into fast magnetosonic waves. When both the magnetic field strength and Alfvén wave velocity approach zero, fast magnetosonic waves will be transferred into ion-acoustic waves. As the phase velocity of ion-acoustic waves is slightly greater than the thermal velocity of protons, the turbulence energy of ion-acoustic waves can largely be absorbed by protons and can cause the mean temperature of protons to be greater than that of electrons by stochastic turbulence heating of ion-acoustic waves for protons.     

Excitation of plasma waves in the ionosphere caused by atmospheric acoustic waves

The transformation of atmospheric acoustic waves into plasma waves in the ionosphere is investigated. The transformation mechanism is based on plasma wave exitation by growing acoustic waves, when a frequency/wavelength matching situation is reached. The interaction of acoustic and plasma waves occurs through collisions of neutral particles with ions. For the case of ion-sound waves, oscillations on ion cyclotron frequency and Alfvén waves is considered. A peculiarity of Alfvén waves is the wide frequency band which may be stimulated through wave-wave interaction.     

Nonlinear Coupling of Langmuir Waves with Whistler Waves in the Solar Wind

Close temporal correlation between high-frequency Langmuir waves and low-frequency electromagnetic whistler waves has been observed recently within magnetic holes of the solar wind. In order to account for these observations, a theory is formulated to describe the nonlinear coupling of Langmuir waves and whistler waves. It is shown that a Langmuir wave can interact nonlinearly with a whistler wave to produce either right-hand or left-hand circularly polarized electromagnetic waves. Nonlinear coupling of Langmuir waves and whistler waves may lead to the formation of modulated Langmuir wave packets as well as the generation of circularly polarized radio waves at the plasma frequency in the solar wind. Numerical examples of whistler frequency, nonlinear growth rate and modulation frequency for solar wind parameters are calculated.     

Heating of Jupiter’s thermosphere by the dissipation of upward propagating acoustic waves

Thunderstorms in Jupiter’s atmosphere are likely to be prodigious generators of acoustic waves, as are thunderstorms in Earth’s atmosphere. Accordingly, we have used a numerical model to study the dissipation in Jupiter’s thermosphere of upward propagating acoustic waves. Model simulations are performed for a range of wave periods and horizontal wavelengths believed to characterize these acoustic waves. The possibility that the thermospheric waves observed by the Galileo Probe might be acoustic waves is also investigated. Whereas dissipating gravity waves can cool the upper thermosphere through the effects of sensible heat flux divergence, it is found that acoustic waves mainly heat the Jovian thermosphere through effects of molecular dissipation, sensible heat flux divergence, and Eulerian drift work. Only wave-induced pressure gradient work cools the atmosphere, an effect that operates at all altitudes. The sum of all effects is acoustic wave heating at all heights. Acoustic waves and gravity waves heat and cool the atmosphere in fundamentally different ways. Though the amplitudes and mechanical energy fluxes of acoustic waves are poorly constrained in Jupiter’s atmosphere, the calculations suggest that dissipating acoustic waves can locally heat the thermosphere at a significant rate, tens to a hundred Kelvins per day, and thereby account for the high temperatures of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. It is unlikely that the waves detected by the Galileo Probe were acoustic waves; if they were, they would have heated Jupiter’s thermosphere at enormous rates.     

Wave reflection and wave disorder in the solar transition zone and corona

The reflection coefficient for sound or Alfvén waves reaching the transition zone is evaluated. A family of temperature profiles, including T ^5/2 dT/dz = constant, permits analytical solutions for the velocity and yields the reflection coefficient as a function of both the wavelength and the temperature jump across the zone. When the temperature jump is large, even waves appreciably shorter than the zone thickness are reflected efficiently.Wave reflection disorders the waves in and below the transition zone, because rising waves there interact with reflected waves in a manner more similar to turbulence than to shock steepening.The distribution in directions of hydromagnetic waves is determined by the non-uniformity of their sources. Most inhomogeneities in the wave source cause the waves to resemble isotropic fastmode waves more than Alfvén waves. This places severe restrictions on possible sources of Alfvén waves.     

Comparative study of ion cyclotron waves at Mars, Venus and Earth

Ion cyclotron waves are generated in the solar wind when it picks up freshly ionized planetary exospheric ions. These waves grow from the free energy of the highly anisotropic distribution of fresh pickup ions, and are observed in the spacecraft frame with left-handed polarization and a wave frequency near the ion’s gyrofrequency. At Mars and Venus and in the Earth’s polar cusp, the solar wind directly interacts with the planetary exospheres. Ion cyclotron waves with many similar properties are observed in these diverse plasma environments. The ion cyclotron waves at Mars indicate its hydrogen exosphere to be extensive and asymmetric in the direction of the interplanetary electric field. The production of fast neutrals plays an important role in forming an extended exosphere in the shape and size observed. At Venus, the region of exospheric proton cyclotron wave production may be restricted to the magnetosheath. The waves observed in the solar wind at Venus appear to be largely produced by the solar-wind-Venus interaction, with some waves at higher frequencies formed near the Sun and carried outward by the solar wind to Venus. These waves have some similarity to the expected properties of exospherically produced proton pickup waves but are characterized by magnetic connection to the bow shock or by a lack of correlation with local solar wind properties respectively. Any confusion of solar derived waves with exospherically derived ion pickup waves is not an issue at Mars because the solar-produced waves are generally at much higher frequencies than the local pickup waves and the solar waves should be mostly absorbed when convected to Mars distance as the proton cyclotron frequency in the plasma frame approaches the frequency of the solar-produced waves. In the Earth’s polar cusp, the wave properties of ion cyclotron waves are quite variable. Spatial gradients in the magnetic field may cause this variation as the background field changes between the regions in which the fast neutrals are produced and where they are re-ionized and picked up. While these waves were discovered early in the magnetospheric exploration, their generation was not understood until after we had observed similar waves in the exospheres of Mars and Venus.     

Waves and Oscillations in the Corona – (Invited Review)

It has long been suggested on theoretical grounds that MHD waves must occur in the solar corona, and have important implications for coronal physics. An unequivocal identification of such waves has however proved elusive, though a number of events were consistent with an interpretation in terms of MHD waves. Recent detailed observations of waves in events observed by SOHO and TRACE removes that uncertainty, and raises the importance of MHD waves in the corona to a higher level. Here we review theoretical aspects of how MHD waves and oscillations may occur in a coronal medium. Detailed observations of waves and oscillations in coronal loops, plumes and prominences make feasible the development of coronal seismology, whereby parameters of the coronal plasma (notably the Alfvén speed and through this the magnetic field strength) may be determined from properties of the oscillations. MHD fast waves are refracted by regions of low Alfvén speed and slow waves are closely field-guided, making regions of dense coronal plasma (such as coronal loops and plumes) natural wave guides for MHD waves. There are analogies with sound waves in ocean layers and with elastic waves in the Earth's crust. Recent observations also indicate that coronal oscillations are damped. We consider the various ways this may be brought about, and its implications for coronal heating.     

Time signatures of impulsively generated waves in a coronal plasma

Impulsively generated waves in solar coronal loops are numerically simulated in the frame-work of cold magnetohydrodynamics. Coronal inhomogeneities are approximated by gas density slabs embedded in a uniform magnetic field. The simulations show that an initially excited pulse results in the propagation of wave packets which correspond to both trapped and leaky waves. Whereas the leaky waves propagate outside the slab, the trapped waves occur as a result of a total reflection from the slab walls. Time signatures of these waves are made by a detection of the trapped waves at a fixed spatial location. For waves excited within the slab, time signatures exhibit periodic, quasi-periodic and decay phases. The time signatures for waves excited outside the slab, or for a multi-series of variously shaped impulses generated at different places and times, can possess extended quasi-periodic phases. The case of parallel slabs, when the presence of a second slab influences the character of wave propagation in the first slab, exhibits complex time signatures as a result of solitary waves interaction.     

Long nonlinear waves in a compressible magnetically structured atmosphere

The propagation of nonlinear slow sausage small-amplitude waves in a magnetic slab in a magnetic environment is considered. The equation for surface waves that is allied form of the Benjamin-Ono equation and the equation for body waves that is allied form of the equation for body waves in the slab are derived with the use of the method of stretching variables. The solutions of the equation for surface waves in the form of solitary waves are obtained numerically.     

Gamma射线爆光曲线的一个简单激波模型

采用一个简单的激波模型来讨论了珈玛射线爆光变曲线的轮廓。根据激波理论,爆炸产生压力脉冲并以压力波的形式传播,既有压缩波也有膨胀波。压缩波的合并产生激波,它的强度被随后并入的压缩波或膨胀波分别增强或减弱。该模型能自然地描述珈玛爆光变曲线和光变曲线具有的"快速上升指数下降"的轮廓特征。我们认为这一特征是压缩波和膨胀波的传播特性导致的。     

Nonlinear electrostatic coherent structures: solitary and shock waves in a dissipative, nonplanar multi-component quantum plasma

The nonlinear propagation of ion-acoustic solitary and shock waves in a dissipative, nonplanar quantum plasma comprised of electrons, positrons, and ions are studied. A modified Korteweg-de Vries Burgers equation is derived in the limit of low frequency and long wavelength by taking into account the kinematic viscosity among the plasma constituents. It is shown that this plasma system supports the propagation of both compressive and rarefactive nonlinear waves. The effects of variation of various plasma parameters on the time evolution of nonplanar solitary waves, the profile of shock waves, and the nonlinear structure induced by the collision of solitary waves are discussed. It is found that these parameters have significant effects on the properties of nonlinear waves in cylindrical and spherical geometries, and these effects for compressive and rarefactive nonlinear waves are obviously different.     

Is the galactic disk well mixed?

The theory of resonant interactions between particles and MHD waves (in collision-dominated plasmas) is shown to be equivalent to the corresponding theory for waves in collisionless plasmas provided that the wave properties are described in a suitable way. Slow-mode waves (as well as fast mode waves and Alfvén waves) might contribute to the scattering of cosmic rays in the interstellar medium.     

太阳风中电磁离子回旋波的观测与理论研究进展

太阳风中的电磁离子回旋(Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron, EMIC)波自报道以来,受到了广泛的关注和研究.由于波的频率接近质子的回旋频率, EMIC波可以通过回旋共振波粒相互作用将波能传递给离子,并在太阳风粒子加热和加速等能化现象中发挥重要作用.总结了太阳风中EMIC波的观测和理论研究进展,包括EMIC波在磁云内外、磁云和行星际日冕物质抛射鞘区中的观测研究得到的一系列结果以及基于观测进行波的激发机制所取得的研究进展,并展望未来研究太阳风中EMIC波的突破方向.     

Non-adiabatic oscillations in an isothermal atmosphere

The problem of propagation and linear transformation of atmospheric and temperature waves in an isothermal atmosphere with stratified heat exchange has been solved analytically. The cases are discussed where temperature inhomogeneities produced by the waves are either optically thin or optically thick. Formulae have been derived for the absorption, reflection, and transformation of waves when they are transformed from adiabatic into isothermal. The properties of temperature waves are considered. The theory of non-adiabatic atmospheric waves is applied to an analysis of oscillations in a quiet solar atmosphere.     

Equations for transfer of radiation in plasma at decay interactions with ionacoustic waves

Equations for spectral energy densities of waves are obtained describing transfer of high frequency radiation through plasma without magnetic field at the decay of electromagnetic waves into electromagnetic and ionacoustic ones, as well as the decay of Langmuir waves into Langmuir and ionacoustic ones in case of isotropic distributions of all the above waves.     

Fundamental wave of type III solar radio bursts and whistler waves

It is demonstrated by a numerical simulation that both the whistler waves and plasma waves are excited by a common solar electron beam. The excitation of the whistler waves is ascribed to the loss-cone distribution which arises at a later phase of the passage of the beam at a given height due to a velocity dispersion in the electron beam with a finite length. It is highly probable that the fundamental of type III bursts are caused by the coalescence of the whistler waves and the plasma waves excited by a common electron beam, although the plasma waves must suffer induce scatterings by thermal ions to have small wave numbers before the coalescence to occur.     

Critical density solitary waves structures in a hot dusty plasma with vortex-like ion distribution in phase space

The nonlinear properties of solitary waves structure in a hot dusty plasma consisting of isothermal hot electrons, non isothermal ions and high negatively charged massive dust grains, are reported. A modified Korteweg-de Vries equation (modified KdV), which admits a solitary waves solution for small but finite amplitude, is derived using a reductive perturbation theory. A nonisothermal ions distribution provides the possibility of coexistence of amplitude rarefactive as well as compressive solitary waves. On the other hand, consideration of a critical ions density gives a stationary solution of solitary waves and the dynamics of small but finite amplitude of solitary waves is governed by Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV). The properties of solitary waves in the two cases are discussed.