Propagation of perturbation energy fluxes in the subsolar magnetosheath - AMPTE IRM observations

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Sep 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991georl..18.1667l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 18, Sept. 1991, p. 1667-1670. Research supported by NASA.

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Magnetic Disturbances, Magnetosheath, Plasma Flux Measurement, Satellite Observation, Ampte (Satellites), Kinetic Energy, Spacecraft Trajectories

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The propagation properties of perturbation energy fluxes of subsolar magnetosheath fluctuations were studied. The Poynting flux, kinetic energy flux, and enthalpy flux are calculated using magnetic field and plasma measurements from the AMPTE IRM satellite during five intervals in 1984. The results are then compared with a disturbance indicator R of the magnetic field in the same magnetosheath region. It is shown that during disturbed periods with large transverse variations (low R level), the perturbation Poynting flux and the kinetic energy flux increase, and a significant portion of the fluxes consistently propagates toward the magnetopause. The Poynting flux of those fluctuations which consist of mainly compressional perturbations does not appear to propagate in any certain direction. The enthalpy flux of the perturbations does not propagate in any certain direction in any of the cases. The kinetic energy flux appears to be more important in exciting harmonic ULF waves in the dayside magnetosphere.

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