shocks! david burgess astronomy unit queen mary, university of london
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Shocks!David BurgessAstronomy Unit
Queen Mary, University of London
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This presentation was given at:
Workshop on Solar Kinetics and MHD, 25-27 Feb 2008, RAL Cosener's House, Abingdon, UK.
This is not a comprehensive tutorial about collisionless shocks in the solar context.
The aim is only to give an indication of some current areas of interest in shock research, and in particular to draw attention to some areas and questions that could be interesting to pursue further in the context of the solar atmosphere and corona.
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Shocks:
All the important physics is kinetic
Particle reflection Instabilities Particle acceleration
Without collisions …
• Converting flow to thermal energy
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What parameters are important?
• Shock normal angle : quasi-parallel versus quasi-perpendicular
• Mach Number• Plasma beta
• Simulation method (hybrid, PIC, etc)
• Mass ratio
• Dimensionality
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Some Topics …
• Electron acceleration
• Nonstationarity
• Turbulence
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Electron Acceleration at Qperp• Fast Fermi by mirror reflection
• Highest energies (but lowest efficiency) at close to perpendicular
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Effect of including structure• Test particle electrons in fields from 2D hybrid
simulation• Structure: power law energy spectra up and
downstream
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Nonstationarity at Qperp Shocks
• Hybrid: nonstationary at low enough • PIC: overturning via over-reflection of ions
• Effect controlled by and mass ratio used in simulations …
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Nonstationarity at Qperp Shocks
• With realistic mass ratio foot dynamics controlled by electromagnetic two stream instability
• With implications for (eg) shock surfing acceleration
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Nonstationarity at Oblique Shocks
• PIC simulations
• Away from perpendicular, standing whistler can dominate structure
• Nonstationarity via competition of different mechanisms
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Kinetic Effects in Turbulence• Kinetics and the
“dissipation” scale• What is the “energy
cascade” at kinetic scales?
• What happens with multiple kinetic scales?
• Control of temperature and temperature anisotropy with linear instabilities
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Shocks in the Corona
Flares …
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Solar shocks continued …
CME
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More solar shocks?
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Dynamic Fibrils - Simulations