Abstract
Interplanetary pick-up ions originate from ionizations of neutral interstellar atoms in the heliosphere. Over the past periods it was generally expected that after pick-up by the frozen-in solar wind magnetic fields these ions quickly isotropize in velocity space by strong pitch- angle scattering, they do, however, not assimilate to the ambient solar wind ions. Meanwhile careful investigations of pick-up ion data obtained with the plasma analyzers on AMPTE and ULYSSES could clearly reveal that, especially at periods of flow-aligned fields, noticeably anisotropic distributions must prevail. To better understand the evolutionary tracks of pick-up ions in interplanetary phase-space we carried out an injection study which takes into account all relevant convection and diffusion processes, i.e. describing pitch angle scattering, adiabatic cooling, drifts and energy diffusion. As demonstrated here particles injected at 1 AU establish a distribution function with substantial anisotropies up to distances beyond 6 AU. Only under the action of fairly strong isotropic turbulence levels a trend towards isotropy can be recognized. The bulk velocity of the injected pick-up ions turns out to be remarkably smaller than the solar wind velocity. It also is obvious that pick-ups are strongly spread out from that solar wind plasma parcel into which they were originally implanted. As one consequence it must be concluded that the derivation of interstellar He gas parameters, using He pick-up ion flux data, require appreciable caution. Due to anisotropic spatial diffusion the location of the LISM helium cone axis, i.e. the LISM wind vector, and the LISM helium temperature are hidden in the associated He+ pick-up ion flux patterns.
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Chalov, S.V., Fahr, H.J. (1999). Interplanetary Pick-Up Ion Acceleration. In: Büchner, J., Axford, I., Marsch, E., Vasyliūnas, V. (eds) Plasma Astrophysics And Space Physics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4203-8_40
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