A survey of low frequency waves at Jupiter: The ULYSSES encounter

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Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993jgr....9821203t&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 98, no. A12, p. 21,203-21,216

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

46

Jupiter (Planet), Low Frequencies, Planetary Magnetospheres, Plasma Interactions, Plasma Waves, Shock Wave Interaction, Solar Wind, Whistlers, Polarization (Waves), Radio Astronomy, Solar Planetary Interactions, Spaceborne Astronomy, Ulysses Mission

Scientific paper

We report the results of a survey of low-frequency (LF) plasma waves detected during the Ulysses Jupiter flyby. In the Jovian foreshock, two predominant wave periods are detected: 102-s and 5-s, as measured in the spacecraft frame. The 102-s waves are highly nonlinear propagate at large angles to vector-B0 (typically 50 deg), are steepened, and sometimes have attached whistler packets. For the interval analyzed the 102-s waves had mixed right-and left-hand polarizations. We argue that these are all consistent with being right-hand magnetosonic waves in the solar wind frame. The 102-s waves with attached whistler are similar to cometary waves. The trailing portions are linearly polaraized and the whistler portions circularly polarized with amplitudes decreasing linearly with time. The emissions are generated by approximately 2-keV protons flowing from the Jovian bow shock/magnetosheath into the upstream region. The instability is the ion beam instability. Higher Z ions were considered as a source of the waves but have been ruled out because of the low sunward velocities needed for their resonance. The 5-s waves have delta vector-B/B0 approximately = 0.5, are compressive and are left-hand polarized in the spacecraft frame. Local generation by three different resonant interactions were considered and have been ruled out. One possibility is that these waves are whistler mode by-products of the steepened lower-frequency magnetosonic waves. Mirror mode structures were detected throughout the outbound magnetosheath passes. For these structures, the theta(sub kB values were consistently in the range of 80 deg to 90 deg, exceptionally high values.

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