NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Electromagnetic pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Electromagnetic

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High-resolution magnetic field data from the Polar Magnetic Field Experiment (MFE) show that narrow band waves at frequencies approximately 0.2 to 3 Hz are a permanent feature in the vicinity of the polar cusp. The waves have been found in the magnetosphere adjacent to the cusp (both poleward and equatorward of the cusp) and in the cusp itself. The occurrence of waves is coincident with depression of magnetic field strength associated with enhanced plasma density, indicating the entry of magnetosheath plasma into the cusp region. The wave frequencies are generally scaled by the local proton cyclotron frequency, and vary between 0.2 and 1.7 times local proton cyclotron frequency. This suggests that the waves are generated in the cusp region by the precipitating magnetosheath plasma. The properties of the waves are highly variable. The waves exhibit both lefthanded and right-handed polarization in the spacecraft frame. The propagation angles vary from nearly parallel to nearly perpendicular to the magnetic field.

We find no correlation among wave frequency, propagation angle and polarization. Combined magnetic field and electric field data for the waves indicate that the energy flux of the waves is guided by the background magnetic field and points downward toward the ionosphere

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 1/1/2001
• Year: 2001
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, HIGH ALTITUDE, ION CYCLOTRON RADIATION, CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY, WAVE PROPAGATION, POLAR/GGS SPACECRAFT, MAGNETIC FIELDS, PLASMAS (PHYSICS), MAGNETOSHEATH, FLUX DENSITY, HIGH RESOLUTION, POLAR CUSPS, Le, Guan, Blanco-Cano, X., Russell, C. T., Zhou, X.-W., Mozer, F., Trattner, K. J., Fuselier, S. A., Anderson, B. J

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