Instabilities of low frequency, parallel propagating electromagnetic waves in the earth's foreshock region

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Sep 1981

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Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 86, Sept. 1, 1981, p. 7487-7497. Research supported by the University of Iowa;

Physics

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Bow Waves, Earth Environment, Electromagnetic Wave Transmission, Ionic Diffusion, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Shock Waves, Low Frequencies, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Solar Wind, Upstream, Wave Dispersion

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An instability analysis is presented for parallel and antiparallel propagating electromagnetic waves generated by reflected and diffuse suprathermal ions upstream of the earth's bow shock. Calculations are performed on the basis of upstream particle observations made by the ISEE 1 Quadrispheric Lepedea instrument and low-energy electron measurements made by the ISEE 1 electron spectrometer for a single period. The electromagnetic dispersion relation is computed and the unstable modes and growth times of the fastest growing waves are determined. It is found that the reflected ions destabilize the plasma most strongly at a wave frequency 0.1 that of the ion gyrofrequency by a resonant ion beam instability for waves propagating upstream and by a nonresonant firehose-like instability for waves propagating downstream. The diffuse ions also destabilize the plasma most strongly at the same frequency by means of resonant instabilities of both right- and left-hand polarized waves propagating away from the bow shock.

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