Energy Dissipation in Strong Collisionless Shocks: The Crucial Role of Ion-to-electron Scale Separation in Particle-in-cell Simulations

Mohamad Shalaby
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Energy dissipation in collisionless shocks is a key mechanism in various astrophysical environments. Its nonlinear nature complicates analytical understanding and necessitates particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. This study examines the impact of reducing the ion-to-electron mass ratio (mr), to decrease computational cost, on energy partitioning in one spatial and three velocity-space dimension PIC simulations of strong, nonrelativistic, parallel electron–ion collisionless shocks using the SHARP code. We compare simulations with a reduced mass ratio (mr = 100) to those with a realistic mass ratio (mr = 1836) for shocks with high ( ) and low ( ) Alfvén Mach numbers. Our findings show that the mass ratio significantly affects particle acceleration and thermal energy dissipation. At high , a reduced mass ratio leads to more efficient electron acceleration and an unrealistically high ion flux at higher momentum. At low , it causes complete suppression of electron acceleration, whereas the realistic mass ratio enables efficient electron acceleration. The reduced mass ratio also results in excessive electron heating and lower heating in downstream ions at both Mach numbers, with slightly more magnetic field amplification at low . Consequently, the electron-to-ion temperature ratio is high at low due to reduced ion heating and remains high at high due to increased electron heating. In contrast, simulations with the realistic mr show that the ion-to-electron temperature ratio is independent of the upstream magnetic field, a result not observed in reduced mr simulations.
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