Department of Physics, University of Calabria,
Rende (CS) 87036, Italy
Gaetano Zimbardo
Department of Physics, University of Calabria,
Rende (CS) 87036, Italy
Silvia Perri
Department of Physics, University of Calabria,
Rende (CS) 87036, Italy
Antonella Greco
Department of Physics, University of Calabria,
Rende (CS) 87036, Italy
Anton V. Artemyev
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia
Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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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.
Spacecraft observations show that energetic ions are found in the Earth’s magnetotail, with...