Ulysses observations of whistler waves at interplanetary shocks and in the solar wind

Details Ulysses observations of whistler waves at interplanetary shocks and in the solar wind Ulysses observations of whistler waves at interplanetary shocks and in the solar wind

Dec 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996jgr...10127555l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 101, Issue A12, p. 27555-27564

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Magnetic Fields, Space Plasma Physics: Shock Waves, Space Plasma Physics: Waves And Instabilities

Scientific paper

This study of whistler wave emission observed by the Ulysses Unified Radio and Plasma Wave (URAP) experiment between 1 and 5 AU is a complement to previous studies of whistler waves observed by the Helios spacecraft between 0.3 and 1 AU. The Helios spacecraft continuously detected a background of whistlers close to the Sun, and this background was found to decrease intensity with larger heliocentric distance. Ulysses plasma wave observations confirm this trend. Within a heliocentric distance of approximately 2 AU, whistler waves are routinely observed. Beyond about 3 AU the waves are usually observed only downstream of interplanetary shocks. Moreover, whistler waves are routinely observed within about 2 AU at all heliographic latitudes of the Ulysses trajectory (-80° to +80°). The combined observations from the Helios and Ulysses spacecraft suggest that whistler emission is always present in the solar wind, although at larger heliocentric distances the wave amplitudes are often below the thresholds of the URAP instrument. Observations throughout the first 5 years of the Ulysses mission show a clear correlation of whistler emission intensity with magnetic field strength, or gyrofrequency, such that increases in wave intensities coincide with increases in gyrofrequency. This correlation is especially evident in observations of interplanetary shocks and high-speed streams. A possible cause of this correlation is increased whistler wave growth due to enhanced electron temperature anisotropies in regions of compressed magnetic field. A shift of the background whistler spectrum as a function of gyrofrequency could account for the observed decrease in whistler amplitudes with increasing heliocentric distance.

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