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Electron Bernstein waves driven by electron crescents near the electron diffusion region

  • W. Y. Li
  • , D. B. Graham
  • , Yu V. Khotyaintsev
  • , A. Vaivads
  • , M. André
  • , K. Min
  • , K. Liu
  • , B. B. Tang
  • , C. Wang
  • , K. Fujimoto
  • , C. Norgren
  • , S. Toledo-Redondo
  • , P. A. Lindqvist
  • , R. E. Ergun
  • , R. B. Torbert
  • , A. C. Rager
  • , J. C. Dorelli
  • , D. J. Gershman
  • , B. L. Giles
  • , B. Lavraud
  • F. Plaschke, W. Magnes, O. Le Contel, C. T. Russell, J. L. Burch
  • National Space Science Center
  • Swedish Institute of Space Physics
  • Macau University of Science and Technology
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Chungnam National University
  • the Southern University of Science and Technology
  • Beihang University
  • University of Bergen
  • IRAP/CNRS
  • Universidad de Murcia
  • University of Colorado Boulder
  • University of New Hampshire Durham
  • Catholic University of America
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • University of Maryland
  • Space Research Institute
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California
  • Southwest Research Institute

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Résumé

The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft encounter an electron diffusion region (EDR) of asymmetric magnetic reconnection at Earth’s magnetopause. The EDR is characterized by agyrotropic electron velocity distributions on both sides of the neutral line. Various types of plasma waves are produced by the magnetic reconnection in and near the EDR. Here we report large-amplitude electron Bernstein waves (EBWs) at the electron-scale boundary of the Hall current reversal. The finite gyroradius effect of the outflow electrons generates the crescent-shaped agyrotropic electron distributions, which drive the EBWs. The EBWs propagate toward the central EDR. The amplitude of the EBWs is sufficiently large to thermalize and diffuse electrons around the EDR. The EBWs contribute to the cross-field diffusion of the electron-scale boundary of the Hall current reversal near the EDR.

langue originaleAnglais
Numéro d'article141
journalNature Communications
Volume11
Numéro de publication1
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 1 déc. 2020
Modification externeOui

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