First Global Images of Ion Energization in the Terrestrial Foreshock by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer.

Academic Article

Abstract

  • The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission provides global energetic neutral atom (ENA) observations from the heliosphere and the Earth's magnetosphere, including spatial, temporal, and energy information. IBEX views the magnetosphere from the sides and almost always perpendicular to noon-midnight plane. We report the first ENA images of the energization process in the Earth's ion foreshock and magnetosheath regions. We show ENA flux and spectral images of the dayside magnetosphere with significant energization of ENA plasma sources (above ~2.7 keV) in the region magnetically connected to the Earth's bow shock (BS) in its quasi-parallel configuration of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). We also show that the ion energization increases gradually with decreasing IMF-BS angle, suggesting more efficient suprathermal ion acceleration deeper in the quasi-parallel foreshock.
  • Authors

  • Dayeh, MA
  • Szalay, JR
  • Ogasawara, K
  • Fuselier, SA
  • McComas, DJ
  • Funsten, HO
  • Petrinec, SM
  • Schwadron, Nathan
  • Zirnstein, EJ
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • August 28, 2020
  • Published In

    Keywords

  • charge‐exchange
  • energetic neutral atoms
  • ion acceleration
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • e2020GL088188
  • Volume

  • 47
  • Issue

  • 16