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Electron mirror and cyclotron instabilities for solar wind plasma

https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3291

Sarfraz, M. ; López, R. A. ; Ahmed, Shahzad ; Yoon, P. H. ( November 2021 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

ABSTRACT
The solar wind plasma is characterized by unequal effective kinetic temperatures defined in perpendicular and parallel directions with respect to the ambient magnetic field. For electrons, the excessive perpendicular temperature anisotropy leads to quasi-parallel electromagnetic electron cyclotron (or whistler) instability and aperiodic electron-mirror instability with oblique wave vectors. The present paper carries out a direct side-by-side comparison of quasi-linear (QL) theory and particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation of combined mirror and cyclotron instabilities acting upon the initially anisotropic electron temperatures, and find that the QL theory satisfactorily encapsulates the non-linear aspect of the combined instability effects. However, a discrepancy between the present study and a previous PIC simulation result is also found, which points to the need for further investigation to resolve such an issue.

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