Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999jgr...104.2381o&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 104, Issue A2, p. 2381-2398
Physics
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Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetopause, Cusp, And Boundary Layers, Magnetospheric Physics: Mhd Waves And Instabilities, Magnetospheric Physics: Solar Wind/Magnetosphere Interactions
Scientific paper
This paper reports the result of a coordinated data analysis of a morningside Pc5 event observed at different altitudes in the magnetosphere and also on the ground. The event took place during 1400-1500 UT of April 29, 1993. The Geotail satellite was located in the boundary region and observed a 5-min quasi-periodic magnetic oscillation. The oscillation was mostly transverse to the background magnetic field. A 90° phase lag between the magnetic field and electric field variations was not clear, suggesting that the oscillation was not a standing wave and that Geotail was located in or close to the excitation region. The plasma flow vector rotated clockwise on the equatorial plane viewed from the north as expected for a magnetospheric surface wave on the morningside. At geosynchronous altitude, the GOES satellites also observed a 5-min magnetic oscillation but with a significantly smaller amplitude than at the Geotail position. Five-minute magnetic oscillations were also detected at Canadian Auroral Network for the OPEN Program Unified Study (CANOPUS) and Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies (MACCS) ground stations in the same local time sector as the satellites, even equatorward of a region 2 field-aligned current observed by the Freja magnetometer data. From the phase analysis of ground signatures, the wave is inferred to propagate westward (antisunward) at a velocity of 18° in longitude per minute. The propagation speed mapped to the equator, 400 km/s, is in the range of the expected flow speed of the magnetosheath. It is inferred that in the present event, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the magnetopause, rather than at the inner edge of the boundary layer, excited an oscillation at the single frequency in a large area from the boundary region to deep inside the magnetosphere.
Angelopoulos Vassilis
Gary James Bennett
Hughes Jeffrey W.
Kokubun Susumu
Lui Anthony Tat Yin
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