Local time distributions of repetition periods for rising tone lower band chorus waves in the magnetosphere

Jih Hong Shue, Yi Kai Hsieh, Sunny W.Y. Tam, Kaiti Wang, Hui Shan Fu, Jacob Bortnik, Xin Tao, Wen Chieh Hsieh, Gilbert Pi

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摘要

Whistler mode chorus waves generally occur outside the plasmapause in the magnetosphere. The most striking feature of the waves is their occurrence in discrete elements. One of the parameters that describe the discrete elements is the repetition period (Trp), the time between consecutive elements. The Trp has not been studied statistically before. We use high-resolution waveform data to derive distributions of Trp for different local times. We find that the average Trp for the nightside (0.56 s) and dawnside (0.53 s) are smaller than those for the dayside (0.81 s) and duskside (0.97 s). Through a comparison with the background plasma and magnetic fields, we also find that the total magnetic field and temperature are the main controlling factors that affect the variability of Trp. These results are important for understanding the generation mechanism of chorus and choosing parameters in simulations that model the acceleration and loss of electrons by wave-particle interactions.

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頁(從 - 到)8294-8301
頁數8
期刊Geophysical Research Letters
42
發行號20
DOIs
出版狀態已出版 - 28 10月 2015

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