MHD wave transmission and production near the magnetopause

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May 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975jgr....80.1764w&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 80, May 1, 1975, p. 1764-1775.

Physics

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Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Magnetopause, Satellite Observation, Wave Propagation, Atmospheric Models, Earth Magnetosphere, Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability, Magnetoacoustic Waves, Magnetosheath, Plasma Density, Power Spectra

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The magnetopause is assumed to be a stable, plane, tangential discontinuity so that we can calculate the amplitudes of waves that are transmitted through, reflected from, and produced at this interface. The calculations show that the ratio of magnetosphere to magnetosheath wave power spectral densities should depend most sensitively upon the ratios of field strengths and plasma densities and upon the magnetic field direction change at the magnetopause if all waves seen in the magnetosphere are transmitted through the interface. These calculations are compared with Explorer 12 measurements of waves with periods between 30 s and 2 min. The observations show that the source of most wave power seen in the magnetosheath near the earth-sun line lies in the magnetosheath or beyond. Transmission could account for a substantial fraction of the wave power seen in the magnetosphere in this subsolar region. Beyond about 35 deg from the earth-sun line, magnetosphere wave power levels are much higher than is predicted by transmission through a stable closed magnetopause.

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