We report multi-spacecraft observations of ULF waves from Van Allen Probes(RBSP), Magnetospheric Multiscale(MMS), Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorm(THEMIS), and Geostationary Operation...We report multi-spacecraft observations of ULF waves from Van Allen Probes(RBSP), Magnetospheric Multiscale(MMS), Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorm(THEMIS), and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites(GOES).On August 31, 2015, global-scale poloidal waves were observed in data from RBSP-B, GOES and THEMIS from L=4 to L=8 over a wide range of magnetic local time(MLT). The polarization states varied towards purely poloidal polarity. In two consecutive orbits over 18 hours, RBSP-A and RBSP-B recorded gradual variation of the polarization states of the poloidal waves; the ratio(|B_a|/|B_r|) decreased from 0.82 to 0.13. After the variation of polarization states, the poloidal ULF waves became very purely poloidal waves, localized in both L and MLT. We identify the poloidal wave as second harmonic mode with a large azimuthal wave number(m) of –232. From RBSP particle measurements we find evidence that the high-m poloidal waves during the polarization variations were powered by inward radial gradients and bump-on-tail ion distributions through the N=1 drift-bounce resonance. Most of the time, the dominant free energy source was inward radial gradients, compared with the positive gradient in the energy distribution of the bump-on-tail ion distributions.展开更多
基金supported by NNSFC grants 41574161,41731070,and 41574159the Strategic Pionner Program on Space Science,Chinese Academy of Sciences,grants XDA15052500 and XDA15350201
文摘We report multi-spacecraft observations of ULF waves from Van Allen Probes(RBSP), Magnetospheric Multiscale(MMS), Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorm(THEMIS), and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites(GOES).On August 31, 2015, global-scale poloidal waves were observed in data from RBSP-B, GOES and THEMIS from L=4 to L=8 over a wide range of magnetic local time(MLT). The polarization states varied towards purely poloidal polarity. In two consecutive orbits over 18 hours, RBSP-A and RBSP-B recorded gradual variation of the polarization states of the poloidal waves; the ratio(|B_a|/|B_r|) decreased from 0.82 to 0.13. After the variation of polarization states, the poloidal ULF waves became very purely poloidal waves, localized in both L and MLT. We identify the poloidal wave as second harmonic mode with a large azimuthal wave number(m) of –232. From RBSP particle measurements we find evidence that the high-m poloidal waves during the polarization variations were powered by inward radial gradients and bump-on-tail ion distributions through the N=1 drift-bounce resonance. Most of the time, the dominant free energy source was inward radial gradients, compared with the positive gradient in the energy distribution of the bump-on-tail ion distributions.
