Correlated wave and particle observations upstream of the Earth's bow shock
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research
- Vol. 86 (A6) , 4517-4529
- https://doi.org/10.1029/ja086ia06p04517
Abstract
Data from three ISEE experiments has been analyzed during several periods of turbulence observed in the solar wind upstream of the earth's quasi‐parallel bow shock. Radio observations are used to validate a shock model, which is subsequently used to compute various geometrical parameters during all the periods studied. One typical 9‐hour period on November 4, 1977, is discussed in some detail to illustrate the parameters studied and the correlations found. It is shown that during this period, the radio noise spectrum has two components, one centered around the local electron plasma frequency and the other at somewhat lower frequencies; the latter component has a shorter wavelength and correlates with the level of MHD turbulence. A multivariate canonical statistical analysis of particle and MHD data during a 2‐week period shows that the proton anisotropy and turbulence level correlate well with the minimum backstreaming proton parallel velocity pmin which, as defined here, is a purely geometrical parameter. Trivariate analysis shows that the correlation of particles and turbulence with the angle between the magnetic field and the shock normal have their sense reversed when allowance is made for the strong correlations with pmin. A very good correlation has been found between power and compressibility in magnetic fluctuations.Keywords
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