EGU22-10585
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10585
EGU General Assembly 2022
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Properties of cosmic ray test particles in global MHD simulation of the heliosphere

Shuichi Matsukiyo1,3, Kotaro Yoshida2, Haruichi Washimi3, and Tohru Hada1,3
Shuichi Matsukiyo et al.
  • 1Kyushu University, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kasuga, Japan (matsukiy@esst.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
  • 2Kyushu University, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kasuga, Japan
  • 3International Center for Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University

Heliosphere is a bubble occupied by the solar wind plasma and magnetic field in the local interstellar space. The motion of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) invading into the heliosphere are strongly affected by the electromagnetic structures of the heliosphere. The statistical behavior of the GCRs near and inside the heliosphere have been conventionally studied by many authors using the diffusion convection model [e.g., Moraal (2013)].

  In this study we investigate the behavior of GCRs invading into the heliosphere in the level of particle trajectory. We conduct test particle simulations of GCRs by using the electromagnetic fields obtained from a global MHD simulation of the heliosphere. The MHD simulation assumes steady solar wind and interstellar wind. GCR protons are initially distributed outside the heliosphere and their motions in the steady virtual heliosphere are calculated by using the Buneman-Boris method. Depending on their initial energy, various types of particle motions, current sheet drift, polar drift, spiral motion, shock drift, Fermi-like acceleration, linear motion, resonantly scattered motion, mirror reflection by bottleneck interstellar field, are observed. We further discuss some statistics of the particles reached at the inner boundary (=50AU from the sun) of the simulation domain.

How to cite: Matsukiyo, S., Yoshida, K., Washimi, H., and Hada, T.: Properties of cosmic ray test particles in global MHD simulation of the heliosphere, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-10585, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10585, 2022.

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