Articles | Volume 34, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-917-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-917-2016
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25 Oct 2016
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Proton and heavy ion acceleration by stochastic fluctuations in the Earth's magnetotail

Filomena Catapano, Gaetano Zimbardo, Silvia Perri, Antonella Greco, and Anton V. Artemyev

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Spacecraft observations show that energetic ions are found in the Earth’s magnetotail, with energies ranging from tens of keV to a few hundreds of keV. In this paper we carry out test particle simulations in which protons and other ion species are injected in the Vlasov magnetic field configurations obtained by Catapano et al. (2015). Three-dimensional time-dependent stochastic electromagnetic perturbations are included in the simulation box, so that the ion acceleration process is studied.