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Published October 11, 2019 | Version 1.0

Buoyancy Waves in Earth's Nightside Magnetosphere: Normal-Mode Oscillations of Thin Filaments

  • 1. Rice University

Description

  • A theory has been developed for small oscillations of a thin filament in the magnetosphere.
  • For the lowest-frequency even modes, the eigenfunctions are essentially buoyancy waves in the plasma sheet, but they are more like slow modes in the inner magnetosphere.
  • For the lowest-frequency even modes, the eigenfrequencies (radians/s) have peak values of approximately 0.07 s-1 between the inner plasma sheet and plasmapause, for an average magnetospheric field. 
  • This includes software and model data used in this paper.
  • Submitted to JGR for review

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