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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2023

Whistler Wave Observations by Parker Solar Probe During Encounter 1: Counter-propagating Whistlers Collocated with Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities and their Application to Electric Field Measurement Calibration

S. Karbashewski
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O. V. Agapitov
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H. Y. Kim
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F. S. Mozer
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J. W. Bonnell
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Stuart D. Bale
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D. Malaspina
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N. E. Raouafi
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Observations of the young solar wind by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission reveal the existence of intense plasma wave bursts with frequencies between 0.05 and 0.20f ce (tens of hertz up to ~300 Hz) in the spacecraft frame. The wave bursts are often collocated with inhomogeneities in the solar wind magnetic field, such as local dips in magnitude or sudden directional changes. The observed waves are identified as electromagnetic whistler waves that propagate either sunward, anti-sunward, or in counter-propagating configurations during different burst events. Being generated in the solar wind flow, the waves experience significant Doppler downshift and upshift of wave frequency in the spacecraft frame for sunward and anti-sunward waves, respectively. Their peak amplitudes can be larger than 2 nT, where such values represent up to 10% of the background magnetic field during the interval of study. The amplitude is maximum for propagation parallel to the background magnetic field. We (i) evaluate the properties of these waves by reconstructing their parameters in the plasma frame, (ii) estimate the effective length of the PSP electric field antennas at whistler frequencies, and (iii) discuss the generation mechanism of these waves.
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insu-04087586 , version 1 (03-05-2023)

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S. Karbashewski, O. V. Agapitov, H. Y. Kim, F. S. Mozer, J. W. Bonnell, et al.. Whistler Wave Observations by Parker Solar Probe During Encounter 1: Counter-propagating Whistlers Collocated with Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities and their Application to Electric Field Measurement Calibration. The Astrophysical Journal, 2023, 947, ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/acc527⟩. ⟨insu-04087586⟩
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