Standing Alfvén waves with m ≫ 1 in an axisymmetric magnetosphere excited by a stochastic source
Standing Alfvén waves with m ≫ 1 in an axisymmetric magnetosphere excited by a stochastic source
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随机源激发的轴对称磁层中 m ≫ 1 的阿尔文驻波
DOI:
10.1007/s00585-998-0900-5
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
V. A. Mazur
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作者:
A. Leonovich;V. A. Mazur
In the framework of an axisymmetric magnetospheric model, we have constructed a theory for broad-band standing Alfvén waves with large azimuthal wave numberm≫ 1 excited by a stochastic source. External currents in the ionosphere are taken as the oscillation source. The source with statistical properties of –white noise” is considered at length. It is shown that such a source drives oscillations which also have the –white noise” properties. The spectrum of such oscillations for each harmonic of standing Alfvén waves has two maxima: near the poloidal and toroidal eigenfre-quencies of the magnetic shell of the observation. In the case of a small attenuation in the ionosphere the maximum near the toroidal frequency is dominated, and the oscillations are nearly toroidally polarized. With a large attenuation, a maximum is dominant near the poloidal frequency, and the oscillations are nearly poloidally polarized.