Excitation of plasma density gradients in the magnetosphere at ultralow frequencies

Details Excitation of plasma density gradients in the magnetosphere at ultralow frequencies Excitation of plasma density gradients in the magnetosphere at ultralow frequencies

Aug 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975jgr....80.3131l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 80, Aug. 1, 1975, p. 3131-3140.

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Earth Magnetosphere, Magnetic Disturbances, Plasma Density, Very Low Frequencies, Wave Excitation, Geomagnetism, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Magnetometers, Plasma Oscillations

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Observational evidence from a latitudinal array of four ground-based magnetometer stations near L = 4 suggests that magnetic disturbances at latitudes of at least L = 4.4 can excite damped sinusoidal oscillations at plasma density gradients at or inside the plasmasphere. The observations, together with the theoretical interpretations of Chen and Hasegawa (1974), suggest that the oscillations can be attributed to a magnetohydrodynamic surface eigenmode excited at the density gradients. The wave frequency, damping rate, and latitudinal dependence of the amplitude for each event can be used to infer the steepness of the plasma density gradient as well as the plasma density inside the gradient region.

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