ULF signatures of the polar cusp

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Sep 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....9110055o&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, Sept. 1, 1986, p. 10055-10062.

Physics

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Extremely Low Radio Frequencies, Polar Cusps, Spectral Signatures, Vlf Emission Recorders, Broadband, Geomagnetic Pulsations, Ionospheric Currents, Magnetohydrodynamics, Magnetometers

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Geomagnetic pulsations associated with the polar cusp have been detected at Cape Parry, Northwest Territories, Canada, using flux gate and induction magnetometers. Data from this station show enhanced power almost every day near local noon. It is this enhancement which is taken as the signature of the polar cusp. Maximum signal levels are observed prior to local noon, although the signals are present for several hours on each side of local noon. The spectrum of pulsations near the cusp is broadband, reaching from a few millihertz to above 1 Hz. On average, the power spectrum decreases with frequency as f to the -2.6 power. Within this general decrease, there are often found regions of enhanced power, principally near 5 mHz and near 40 mHz. The 5-mHz band has been identified with fluctuations in ionospheric currents associated with the cusp boundary and its motions. The 40-mHz band is presumed to be due to direct penetration of the hydromagnetic radiation in the cusp to the ground. From the measured spectrum, an rms fluctuation amplitude of the cusp currents of approximately 3000 A is inferred, and from this a total power dissipated by these fluctuations of approximately 4 x 10 to the 7th W is estimated.

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