Unusual whistler with very large dispersion near the magnetopause: Geotail observation and ray-tracing modeling

Details Unusual whistler with very large dispersion near the magnetopause: Geotail observation and ray-tracing modeling Unusual whistler with very large dispersion near the magnetopause: Geotail observation and ray-tracing modeling

Publishing date

Jun 1998

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adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jgr...10311827n&link_type=abstract

Journals

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 103, Issue A6, p. 11827-11840

Science

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetotail

Type

Scientific paper

Abstract

A case of highly dispersed (~860 s1/2) whistler-like ELF (700-960 Hz) wave was detected with the waveform capture (WFC) receiver aboard the Geotail satellite during a dayside magnetopause skimming. Features of the single event distinguish it from the usual falling tone discrete emissions. By ray-tracing and full-wave calculation, the accessibility of the waves from a ground source of a distorted model magnetosphere were investigated. We propose that a lightning discharge at high latitudes is the most plausible source of the event via a special propagation effect revealed by the ray tracing. We demonstrate that the observed large wavenormal angle with respect to the geomagnetic field, the unusually large level of dispersion, and the lack of the expected nose frequency might be attributable to the frequency-dependent nonducted paths to the satellite. The rare occurrence may partly be caused by the Landau damping by the convecting suprathermal electron beams of several hundred eV. It is also shown that the multiple-hop magnetospherically reflected (MR) whistlers from middle latitudes, though being refracted to higher L shells by the plasmapause, are unable to reach the outer magnetosphere. Interhemisphere ducted propagation is possible for ELF waves along a narrow, modestly (15% or more) enhanced flux tube and shows an upper cutoff frequency governed by the high-latitude minimum-magnetic field ``horns'' regions and the duct enhancement and diameter. A full-wave calculation also implies no lower-frequency cutoff in the upward ionospheric transmission of lightning radiation down to 200 Hz. Because of the complexity of the various effects that influence the propagation from a ground source and the very low occurrence, effective whistler mode waves diagnostics of the highly variable outer magnetosphere are at present beyond our reach.

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