Ultra low frequency waves at the Earth's bow shock

Details Ultra low frequency waves at the Earth's bow shock Ultra low frequency waves at the Earth's bow shock

Mar 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995adspr..15..285r&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177), vol. 15, no. 8-9, p. 285-296

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Earth Magnetosphere, Extremely Low Frequencies, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Plasma Waves, Shock Fronts, Shock Waves, Whistlers, Group Velocity, Landau Damping, Magnetic Flux, Plasma Density, Wave-Particle Interactions

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The Earth's bow shock is a bountiful generator of waves. Some of these waves have group velocities that exceed the solar wind velocity directed into the shock and can propagate upstream against the flow. Upstream whistlers observed close to one Hertz in the spacecraft frame have been seen many Earth radii upstream. A second whistler mode wave, called the precursor, propagates upstream along the shock normal but is phase standing in the solar wind flow. The damping of both whistler mode waves is consistent with Landau damping. At low Mach numbers the precursor is connected to the non-coplanarity component in the shock ramp. At higher Mach numbers the upstream waves cannot propagate upstream and ion reflection becomes more important in providing free energy for wave particle interactions. The non-coplanarity component is still present but it now initiates a downstream wave train. Generally the waves just downstream from the bow shock are left hand circularly polarized ion cyclotron waves propagating along the magnetic field at the Alfven velocity. When the upstream Mach number is high and the helium content of the plasma is high, mirror mode waves are observed.

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