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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 123, Issue 4, Pages 2630-2657Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017JA025034
Keywords
plasma waves; magnetopause
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- Swedish National Space Board [175/15]
- ISSI team MMS
- Cluster Observations of Magnetic Reconnection
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Large-amplitude waves near the electron plasma frequency are found by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission near Earth's magnetopause. The waves are identified as Langmuir and upper hybrid (UH) waves, with wave vectors either close to parallel or close to perpendicular to the background magnetic field. The waves are found all along the magnetopause equatorial plane, including both flanks and close to the subsolar point. The waves reach very large amplitudes, up to 1Vm(-1), and are thus among the most intense electric fields observed at Earth's magnetopause. In the magnetosphere and on the magnetospheric side of the magnetopause the waves are predominantly UH waves although Langmuir waves are also found. When the plasma is very weakly magnetized only Langmuir waves are likely to be found. Both Langmuir and UH waves are shown to have electromagnetic components, which are consistent with predictions from kinetic wave theory. These results show that the magnetopause and magnetosphere are often unstable to intense wave activity near the electron plasma frequency. These waves provide a possible source of radio emission at the magnetopause.
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