Large Bi-Polar Signature in a Perpendicular Electric Field of Two-Dimensional Electrostatic Solitary Waves Associated with Magnetic Reconnection: Statistics and Discussion

doi:10.1088/0256-307X/30/1/019401

Chin. Phys. Lett.

2013, Vol. 30

Issue (1): 019401 DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/30/1/019401

GEOPHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND ASTROPHYSICS

Large Bi-Polar Signature in a Perpendicular Electric Field of Two-Dimensional Electrostatic Solitary Waves Associated with Magnetic Reconnection: Statistics and Discussion

LI Shi-You^1,2**, ZHANG Shi-Feng¹, DENG Xiao-Hua^2,3, CAI Hong¹

¹College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073
²Department of Space Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072
³Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031

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LI Shi-You, ZHANG Shi-Feng, DENG Xiao-Hua et al 2013 Chin. Phys. Lett. 30 019401

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Abstract More than 300 electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs) with a large perpendicular component which is a bi-polar waveform structure are observed in the boundary layer within the magnetic reconnection diffusion region in the near-Earth magnetotail. Such ESWs are called two-dimensional ESWs. A Singe-reconnection-based-statistical study of two-dimensional ESWs shows that: (1) ESWs can be continuously observed in the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL) associated with the magnetic reconnection diffusion region, and their amplitude ranges are mainly from several tens to hundreds of μV/m; (2) both one-dimension-like ESWs (very small magnitude on E_⊥) and two-dimension-like ESWs (large magnitude on E_⊥, which are even comparable to that in the E_||) are observed within a small time interval; (3) within the observation time spans, more than 61% of ESWs are regarded as two-dimensional ESWs for the I_2D>20%. We discuss the bi-polar structure in E_⊥. The observation of ESWs with a large bi-polar structure in the perpendicular electric field gives evidence that the unique waveform differs from previous understanding from observations and simulations which suggests that it should be a uni-polar waveform structure in the E_⊥ of ESWs.

Received: 20 August 2012 Published: 04 March 2013

PACS:	94.80.+g	(Instrumentation for space plasma physics, ionosphere, and magnetosphere)
	94.30.cp	(Magnetic reconnection)
	52.35.Qz	(Microinstabilities (ion-acoustic, two-stream, loss-cone, beam-plasma, drift, ion- or electron-cyclotron, etc.))
	52.35.Fp	(Electrostatic waves and oscillations (e.g., ion-acoustic waves))

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