The siphonic energy transfer between hot solar wind and cold martian ionosphere through open magnetic flux rope

A mechanism for energy transfer from the solar wind to the Martian ionosphere through open magnetic flux rope is proposed based on the observations by Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN(MAVEN).The satellite was located in the dayside magnetosheath at an altitude of about 70o km above the northern hemisphere.Collisions between the hot solar wind protons and the cold heavy ions/neutrals in the subsolar region can cool the protons and heat the heavy ions.As a result,the magnetosheath protons are siphoned into the ionosphere due to the thermal pressure gradient of protons and the heated heavy ions escape along the open magnetic field lines.Although direct collisions in the lower-altitude region were not detected,this physical process is demonstrated by MAVEN measurements of enhanced proton density,decreased proton temperature and oppositely directed motions of hot and cool protons within the flux rope,which are very different from the observational features of the flux transfer events near the Earth's magnetopause.This mechanism could universally exist in many contexts where a collisionless plasma region is connected to a collisional plasma region.By reconstructing the magnetic geometry and the cross-section of the flux rope using the Grad-Shafranov technique,the ion loss rates are quantitatively estimated to be on the order of 1023 s-l,which is much higher than previously estimated.

Theoretical study of the ionospheric dynamo region inside the South Atlantic Anomaly

The South Atlantic Anomaly(SAA)is a region where the geomagnetic field is significantly lower than that of the surrounding area.On the basis of the models of CHAOS-7.8,Mass Spectrometer Incoherent Scatter Model(NRLMSISE-00),and International Reference Ionosphere 2016(IRI-2016),we theoretically investigated the lower and upper boundaries of the ionospheric dynamo region inside the SAA.In the ionospheric dynamo region,electrons are coupled with magnetic field lines,whereas ions are decoupled from magnetic field lines.Our results showed that the ionospheric dynamo region inside the SAA is higher and larger than that outside the SAA.We also studied the boundary variations of the dynamo region inside the SAA depending on the seasons and solar activities.We found that the dynamo region inside the SAA is the highest and largest in the summer of the southern hemisphere at solar maximum.The larger and higher altitude range of the ionospheric dynamo region in the SAA can contribute to the stronger ionospheric currents in this region.

Resonance and antiresonance characteristics in linearly delayed Maryland model

The Maryland model is a critical theoretical model in quantum chaos.This model describes the motion of a spin-1/2particle on a one-dimensional lattice under the periodical disturbance of the external delta-function-like magnetic field.In this work,we propose the linearly delayed quantum relativistic Maryland model(LDQRMM)as a novel generalization of the original Maryland model and systematically study its physical properties.We derive the resonance and antiresonance conditions for the angular momentum spread.The“characteristic sum”is introduced in this paper as a new measure to quantify the sensitivity between the angular momentum spread and the model parameters.In addition,different topological patterns emerge in the LDQRMM.It predicts some additions to the Anderson localization in the corresponding tight-binding systems.Our theoretical results could be verified experimentally by studying cold atoms in optical lattices disturbed by a linearly delayed magnetic field.