A statistical study of EMIC waves and associated plasma conditions in the inner magnetosphere: Cluster observations

Details A statistical study of EMIC waves and associated plasma conditions in the inner magnetosphere: Cluster observations A statistical study of EMIC waves and associated plasma conditions in the inner magnetosphere: Cluster observations

Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsm13b2065z&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SM13B-2065

Physics

[2730] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosphere: Inner, [2740] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetospheric Configuration And Dynamics, [2772] Magnetospheric Physics / Plasma Waves And Instabilities, [2784] Magnetospheric Physics / Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions

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In the Earth's magnetosphere, electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves are normally excited by an anisotropic distribution of energetic (a few tens of keV) H+ in the ring current or plasma sheet. The generation and propagation of EMIC waves are also profoundly controlled by other plasma parameters such as ion composition, cold heavy plasma, and energetic H+ density. During the time period of 1 March 2001 - 31 December 2009, about 200 time intervals of EMIC wave activity are identified from the wavelet spectrograms of high-resolution (22.4 vectors/second) magnetic field data from the Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) on board Cluster in the inner magnetosphere. Those EMIC wave intervals, lasting for a few to tens of minutes, predominantly occurred on the dayside (L = 4-15) and at low/middle magnetic latitudes (MLAT = -50°-45°). In this study, using in situ plasma and magnetic field measurements on Cluster, upstream solar wind data, and geomagnetic indices (i.e., Dst and Kp), we perform a statistical study of the wave periods to investigate the occurrence conditions for the waves, including the local plasma conditions, the solar wind plasma/interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) conditions, and geomagnetic activity.

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