Abstract
AbstractIn the Earth's inner magnetosphere, charged particles can be accelerated and transported by ultralow frequency (ULF) waves via drift resonance. We investigate the effects of magnetospheric convection on the nonlinear drift resonance process, which provides an inhomogeneity factor S to externally drive the pendulum equation that describes the particle motion in the ULF wave field. The S factor, defined as the ratio of the driving amplitude to the square of the pendulum trapping frequency, is found to vary with magnetic local time and, as a consequence, oscillates quasiâperiodically at the particle drift frequency Ïd. To better understand the particle behavior governed by the driven pendulum equation, we carry out simulations to obtain the evolution of electron distribution functions in energy and Lâshell phase space. We find that resonant electrons can remain phase trapped by the lowâm ULF waves under strong convection electric field, whereas for highâm ULF waves, the electrons trajectories can be significantly modified. More interestingly, the electron drift frequency Ïd is close to the nonlinear trapping frequency Ïtr for intermediateâm ULF waves, which corresponds to chaotic motion of resonant electrons. These findings shed new light on the nature of coherent and diffusive particle transport in the inner magnetosphere.
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