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GEOTAIL Observations of Anomalously Low Density Plasma in the Magnetosheath GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 27, NO. 23, PAGES 3781-3784, DECEMBER 1, 2000 GEOTAIL observations of anomalously low density plasma in the magnetosheath T. Terasawa1, Y. Kasaba2, K. Tsubouchi2,T.Mukai2,Y.Saito2,L.A. Frank3,W.R.Paterson3,K.Ackerson3,H.Matsumoto4,H.Kojima4,H. Matsui5,6,D.Larson7,R.Lin7,T.Phan7, J. Steinberg8,D.McComas8,R. Skoug8,M.Fujimoto5, M. Hoshino1, and A. Nishida2 Abstract. During the anomalously low density solar wind Figure 2 (a) shows as an ‘E-t’ (energy versus time) dia- interval of May 1999, GEOTAIL was in the magnetosheath gram the variation of the solar wind ion count rate of the for ∼37 hours after making an inbound crossing of the ex- CPI/HPA instrument (with a medium geometrical factor −5 2 panding bow shock at ∼ 8RE upstream of its nominal posi- G∼6 × 10 cm -sr-eV/eV) on GEOTAIL from t=12 h to tion. Comparison among data sets obtained from GEOTAIL 72 h. The decrease of the solar wind density is seen as (magnetosheath), WIND (near upstream – bow shock), and an overall reduction of this counting rate. The plasma den- ACE (far upstream) reveals several unique features: Firstly, sity and bulk velocity were calculated from the ion measure- during the interval of 1430-1530 UT on 11 May, we observed ments by CPI/SW (with a low G∼4×10−6 cm2-sr-eV/eV for both in the solar wind and magnetosheath double-peaked t=12-25, 54.5-56.5, and 57.5-72 h) and by LEP/EAI (with protons with a peak separation of 250-300 km/s, which was ahighG∼1.5 × 10−3 cm2-sr-eV/eV for t=25-54.5 and 56.5- close to the local Alfv´en velocity during the event. Sec- 57.5 h). Combination of these ion sensors with different G ondly, we observed extremely strong strahl electrons both is essential to obtain a wide dynamic range of ion density in the solar wind and magnetosheath during the interval of measurement (roughly for the five decades from 10−3 to 102 0600-2100 UT on 11 May 1999. We present an overview cm−3). Figure 2 (b) shows a similar E-t diagram for elec- of the GEOTAIL observations, and discuss their physical trons from the LEP/EAE instrument on GEOTAIL. For a significance. description of these instruments and the magnetic field mea- surement (MGF) we refer the readers to [Frank et al., 1994] Overview (CPI), [Mukai et al., 1994] (LEP), and [Kokubun et al., 1994] −3 (MGF). Typical solar wind at 1 AU has a density of several cm . The decrease of the solar wind density caused an increase −3 Density reduction well below 1 cm is rare, but has been of the Alfv´en velocity in the solar wind, VA, and decreases recorded before [Gosling et al., 1982; Phillips et al., 1989]. of the Alfv´en and fast Mach numbers, MA and MF .The Such low density intervals provide good opportunities to ex- WIND observation (Figure 2 (c), for instrumentations, see amine solar-terrestrial interactions with a very inflated bow shock and magnetosphere. On May 10-12, 1999, the solar wind density decreased well below 1 cm−3 for more than a day while the velocity was around 350-400 km/s. In this letter, we give an overview of the GEOTAIL observations and a preliminary report from the GEOTAIL-WIND-ACE collaboration. Figure 1 shows the position of GEOTAIL during the 60-hour interval between 12:00 UT on 10 May and0:00UTon13May(t=12 and 72 h) in the geocentric solar ecliptic (GSE) coordinate system. The nominal bow shock and magnetopause positions for average solar wind conditions are shown as curves with BS and MP. Both the magnetopause and bow shock expanded substantially during this interval as shown below. 1DEPS, University of Tokyo 2ISAS 3Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Iowa 4RASC, Kyoto University 5TITECH 6JST 7 UCB/SSL Figure 1. The XY (top) and XZ (bottom) positions of GEO- 8LANL 9 TAIL in the geocentric solar ecliptic (GSE) coordinate system MPE during the 60-hour interval between 12:00 on 10 May and 0:00 on 13 May (t=12 and 72 h). Numbers 12, 24, ... 72 indicate the Copyright 2000 by the American Geophysical Union. satellite position every 12 hours. Dots on the orbit are drawn every 2 hours. The unit of the coordinate is earth radii (RE ). Paper number 2000GL000087. Curves with BS and MP show the nominal XY position of the 0094-8276/00/2000GL000087$05.00 bow shock and magnetopause in the equatorial plane (Z=0) 3781 3782 TERASAWA ET AL.: ANOMALOUSLY LOW DENSITY PLASMA IN MAGNETOSHEATH [Ogilvie et al., 1995] and [Lepping et al., 1995]) shows that MA and MF were >3beforet∼24 h and after t∼62 h, but became <∼1.5 during the ‘core’ part of the low density solar wind interval, t=36-44 h. With such a decrease of the Mach numbers, we expect a significant expansion of the earth’s bow shock. At t∼16.75 h the inbound bow shock crossing of GEOTAIL occurred ∼8RE upstream of the nominal bow shock surface, which was evident in the Figure 2 as heat- ing of ions and electrons ((a) and (b)), and sudden jumps 6 shownbytheredcurvesfor(d)N,(e)VX ,and(f)|B| (red 5 (c) MA Mf dash-dotted lines). In the midst of the extremely low den- 4 sity interval, t=41.6-43.6 h (blue dash-dotted lines) the bow 3 BS shock even reached WIND at XGSE∼40 RE, which was seen 2 WIND as a box-like increase of |B| in panel (f). The average expan- 1 BS PSPS sion speed of the bow shock between GEOTAIL and WIND 100 positions was quite slow (∼2km/s). (d) N (1/cm**3) The solar wind density started to recover to the nom- WIND −3 10 inal value after t∼46 h, and finally reached ∼20 cm at GEOTAIL t∼66 h. A sector boundary crossing was evident in the az- 1 imuthal angle φB of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) between t=66 and 68 h (Figure 2 (g)). Several hours before 0.1 this crossing there were large Alfv´enic fluctuations, which appeared as large variations of VX , φB and θB in Figure 2 -600 (e) Vx (km/s) (e,g,h) (t=52-66 h). These fluctuation induced transient en- -400 tries of GEOTAIL into the magnetotail during t=53.5-54.3 handt=56.0-57.1 h at XGSE=-8∼-10 RE, YGSE=+28∼+27 -200 RE,andZGSE∼0RE (red dashed lines). Note that at these 0 tail entries the E-t diagrams had ‘surges’ of protons up to 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 ∼40 keV and electrons up to ∼10 keV (Figure 2 (a) and 25 (b)), showing the existence of the active plasma sheet un- 20 (f) |B| (nT) der the low density solar wind condition. In the following 15 interval of t=57.1-66 h, GEOTAIL seemed to stay near the 10 flank magnetopause or in the low latitude boundary layer 5 (LLBL), where the local plasma density became compara- 0 ble or even lower than the upstream value (Figure 2 (d)). 180 72 The final entry of GEOTAIL into the magnetotail (mantle) 120 was observed at t∼73 h (not shown). 60 0 -60 (g) φ -120 B (deg) -180 90 45 0 -45 (h) θB (deg) -90 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 Figure 2. The top two panels show E-t diagrams for GEO- TAIL observations of (a) ions (CPI/HPA), and (b) electrons (LEP/EAE). The panel (c) shows Alfv´en and fast Mach numbers of the solar wind flow at WIND, MA and MF , with solid and dot- ted curves, respectively. In the panels (d)-(h), upstream (down- stream) observations by WIND (GEOTAIL) are shown with blue (red) curves. The plasma parameters are (d) density N (cm−3), and (e) GSE-X component of the velocity, VX (km/s). The IMF parameters are (f) the absolute value, |B| (nT), and (g) and (h) the azimuthal and longitudinal angles, φB and θB (deg), respec- Figure 3. (a) An E-t diagram for ions (LEP/EAI) for the o o tively. (φB =0 (180 ) corresponds to the sunward (anti-sunward) interval of t=36-44 h. (b) An equatorial 2D cut of the ion counting o o direction, and φB =135 (or −45 ) to the nominal Parker’s spiral rate profile obtained at t∼38.7 h (14:42 on 11 May 1999) is shown, o o direction. θB =+90 (−90 ) points northward (southward).) All where a green line shows the magnetic field direction. (c) A 1D data in (a)-(h) are 10-min averaged values. The data from the cut along the magnetic field direction. The second ion (proton) WIND spacecraft are by courtesy of K. W. Ogilvie (plasma) and peak was seen in the field aligned direction from the main proton R. P. Lepping (magnetic field). peak. TERASAWA ET AL.: ANOMALOUSLY LOW DENSITY PLASMA IN MAGNETOSHEATH 3783 1 pressure of the solar wind. GEOTAIL encountered with the (a) magnetopause at the tail flank ∼8RE toward dusk from n1 the nominal position, when the solar wind density was still 0.1 −3 n2 low (∼1cm ). Following the transient entry into the tail, GEOTAIL was within the magnetosheath, where the local plasma density was comparable or even lower than the up- density (1/cc) 0.01 stream value.
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