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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. ???, XXXX, DOI:10.1029/,
Global distribution of EMIC waves derived from1
THEMIS observations2
Kyungguk Min1
, Jeongwoo Lee1
, Kunihiro Keika1
, Wen Li2
1Center for Solar and Terrestrial
Research, Department of Physics, New
Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark,
New Jersey, USA.
2Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Sciences, University of California, Los
Angeles, California, USA.
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Abstract.3
This paper presents the global distribution of electromagnetic ion cyclotron4
(EMIC) wave occurrence and the wave properties that have been derived from5
the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms6
(THEMIS) observations from 2007 to 2010 in the radius range of 4 RE to7
14 RE including all magnetic local times. Our major findings are: (1) there8
are two major peaks in the EMIC wave occurrence probability: one in the9
dusk at 812 RE reaching 11 % and the other at dawn at 1012 RE with10
an equally high probability at dusk. (2) In terms of wave power the dusk events11
are stronger (around 10 nT2/Hz) than the dawn events (around 3 nT2/Hz).12
(3) The dawn events are obliquely propagating (> 45) waves emitted in the13
hydrogen band whereas dusk events are nearly parallel propagating ( 30)14
waves emitted in the helium band. (4) The dawn waves are weakly polar-15
ized at left-hand sense around the equator, become linearly polarized with16
increasing latitude and eventually change to a weak right-hand polarization17
at high latitudes whereas dusk waves are strongly left-hand polarized in a18
wide range of latitude. We compare the present results with the previous ones19
obtained by Anderson et al. [JGR, 1992] within 9.25 RE using Active Mag-20
netospheric Particle Tracer Explorer/Charge Composition Explorer (AMPTE/CCE)21
observations, and briefly discuss our new findings based on the linear EMIC22
instability model presented by Horne and Thorne [JGR, 1994].23
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1. Introduction
Electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves are important in magnetospheric dynamics24
since they are able to cause heating of the thermal plasma [Thorne and Horne, 1992, 1997],25
and pitch angle scattering and loss of both ring current ions [Cornwall et al., 1970] and26
relativistic electrons [Thorne and Kennel, 1971]. EMIC waves can be excited by an27
anisotropic temperature distribution (T > T) of energetic ions with energies of a few tens28
keV and are left-hand polarized at generation [Cornwall, 1965; Young et al., 1981; Roux29
et al., 1982; Rauch and Roux, 1982; Anderson et al., 1992a, 1996]. Under the convective30
instability, the greatest amplification of EMIC waves occurs where the group velocity of the31
waves is lowest, making the equator the most preferable region for EMIC wave generation32
[Cornwall, 1965, 1966; Kennel and Petschek, 1966]. It has been suggested that storms33
provide injections of hot ring current particles into the inner magnetosphere which may34
then lead to a condition favorable for EMIC wave generation [ Cornwall, 1965; Criswell,35
1969]. The compression of the magnetopause is suggested to be another source of EMIC36
wave generation [Anderson and Hamilton, 1993; Engebretson et al., 2002; McCollough37
et al., 2010].38
The majority of EMIC waves are, however, observed during the quiet time of the ge-39
omagnetic activity and occur beyond the geosynchronous orbit. Young et al. [1981] and40
Roux et al. [1982] used observations by GOES 1 and 2 to suggest that EMIC waves near41
the geosynchronous orbit are often not associated with plasma density enhancements and42
that the wave characteristics can significantly vary depending on the density and con-43
centration of helium ions. Erlandson et al. [1990] and Anderson et al. [1990, 1992a, b],44
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analyzed AMPTE/CCE magnetic field data to find that EMIC wave events occur primar-45
ily for L > 7 in the afternoon sector and the wave frequency and polarization of EMIC46
waves depend on the magnetic local time (MLT) and L value. In the afternoon sector the47
EMIC waves occur below the helium gyrofrequency and are left-hand polarized, whereas48
in the morning sector they occur at much higher frequencies and are linearly polarized.49
Fraser and Nguyen [2001] analyzed observations by CRRES to conclude that the plasma-50
pause is a region of wave generation and propagation with significant wave power seen51
in the plasmatrough, but is not necessarily the preferred region. They also found the52
local time dependent wave characteristics are similar to those reported by Anderson et al.53
[1992a, b]. Recently, Fraser et al. [2010] investigated the association of EMIC waves with54
storm phases using GOES observations and showed that EMIC waves are mostly hydro-55
gen band at dawnside while hydrogen and helium band events are mixed at duskside at56
geosynchronous orbit. Anderson et al. [1996] examined the ion observations with and57
without EMIC wave events at noon and dawn to conclude that the difference in frequency58
between noon and dawn is attributable to the combined effects of the different hot pro-59
ton temperature and anisotropy and the cold plasma density. They also found that the60
dawn events had significant growth for highly oblique waves and this may suggest that61
the linear polarization of the dawn events is due to domination of the wave spectrum by62
waves generated with oblique wave vectors.63
A comprehensive theoretical study of the results of Anderson et al. [1992a, b] has64
been presented by Horne and Thorne [1994] in which the path-integrated wave gain is65
calculated for two thermal plasma density conditions, that are used to explain the wave66
properties observed in the morning and afternoon sectors, respectively. They also argued67
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that the left-hand polarization dominant in the afternoon sector within |MLAT| < 1068
is a generation effect and the linear polarization at dawn is due to a propagation effect69
associated with wave reflection. Recent hybrid simulation by Hu and Denton [2009] and70
Hu et al. [2010] further showed that the waves can be generated at the equator with strong71
left-hand polarization and the left-hand polarization can change to the linearly polarized72
waves as the wave normal angle increases during propagation. They also pointed out that73
the waves can be generated with large wave normal angle when the helium composition74
is small.75
In this paper, we study EMIC waves using the magnetic field observations by THEMIS76
mission for four year operation period. Compared with the previous statistical studies77
based on either CRRES, AMPTE/CCE or GOES satellites, the THEMIS observation78
has a major advantage in that the wave distribution can be determined in a broader79
radial range. Using this dataset we are able to investigate the spatial distribution of80
EMIC wave occurrence, wave frequency, polarization and wave normal angle on both the81
equatorial and the meridional planes. This paper is organized as follows. We describe the82
instrumentation and analysis procedure in section 2 and the results in section 3. Section83
4 is devoted to the discussion and section 5 concludes this study.84
2. Data Set and Analysis Procedure
2.1. Instruments
The THEMIS spacecraft, comprising five identical probes in near-equatorial orbits with85
apogees above 10 RE and perigees below 2 RE [Angelopoulos, 2008], are ideal for de-86
tecting EMIC waves in a wide range of L and MLT in the Earths magnetosphere. The87
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THEMIS Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) measures the background magnetic field and88
its low frequency fluctuations (up to 64 Hz) in the near-Earth space [Auster et al., 2008].89
In this study low-resolution (sampling rate 4 Hz) FGM data are utilized to construct90
the dynamic spectra of the EMIC waves.91
Electro-Static Analyzer (ESA) measures the ion and electron distribution functions92
over the energy range from a few eV up to 30 keV for electrons and up to 25 keV for93
ions [McFadden et al., 2008]. The total electron density is inferred from the spacecraft94
potential and the electron thermal speed measured by the Electric Field Instrument (EFI,95
which measures three components of the ambient vector electric field [Bonnell et al., 2008])96
and ESA respectively, including the cold plasma population in addition to the hot plasma97
component. The uncertainty for the electron density determination is usually less than a98
factor of two (see, for details, Li et al. [2010] and references therein).99
2.2. Data Set and Event Identification
We use the magnetic field data obtained with the FGM instrument from April 1, 2007 to100
December 31, 2010. Since our goal is to determine the global distribution of EMIC waves,101
we process the data obtained in the radial distance range as wide as possible. The inner102
boundary was set to 4 RE below which local hydrogen and helium gyrofrequencies increase103
too high to determine the wave properties with the sampling rate. The outer boundary was104
set to 14 RE and data outside of the magnetosphere was excluded. The magnetopause was105
identified by visual inspection of the magnetic field and dynamic spectra: upon crossing,106
the magnetic field suddenly changed and broadband noises were seen in power spectra.107
The FGM observations from all five spacecraft were used for the analysis. The number108
of hours, when the FGM observations are available within the magnetopause, is shown109
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in Figure 1. Off-equatorial observations were projected along the field line using the110
dipole magnetic field. Most of the observations were made within 12 RE around which111
the apogees of inner probes (THEMIS-A, D and E) are located. There were relatively few112
observations (< 0.1 hours) at 1800 < MLT < 0700 beyond 12 RE.113
The magnetic field data sometimes includes unrealistic dropouts and spikes usually in114
order of seconds, which can occur when the sun pulse is unavailable for short periods (K.115
H. Glassmeier, private communication, 2011). We first remove those using the phase-space116
method [Goring and Nikora, 2002]. We then determine the background magnetic field by117
taking 1000-point (250 s) sliding average on the magnetic field measured in the GSM118
coordinates. Using the background magnetic field, we define the field aligned coordinates119
(FAC) and transform the original magnetic fields measured in the GSM coordinates into120
this FAC. Waveforms are obtained by subtracting the background magnetic field from the121
total magnetic field in the FAC.122
The waveforms in the time domain were Fourier-transformed to the frequency domain123
where we identify the EMIC waves. Since our investigation covers a broad range of L124
shells, EMIC waves should also be distributed in a correspondingly wide frequency range.125
We apply the Morlet wavelet transform [Grossmann and Morlet, 1984] to the daily dataset126
which returns spectrum in the logarithmic frequency scale and thus eases analysis of a127
spectrum in a wide frequency range. In this dynamic spectrum, we mark and record the128
EMIC wave period. The identification of EMIC waves is made via visual inspection of the129
dynamic spectrum in which signals with total power exceeding 102nT2/Hz (background130
noise level) within hydrogen and/or helium bands are identified with EMIC waves. Due131
to the sampling rate of the magnetic field, EMIC waves in hydrogen band ( fHe < f < fH)132
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cannot be detected. When a dipole magnetic field is assumed, hydrogen gyrofrequency133
reaches Nyquest frequency (2 Hz) for R 6.2 RE while helium gyrofrequency reaches 2134
Hz for R 3.9 RE. Therefore the coverage of the hydrogen band waves in this study is135
limited within the geosynchronous orbit and hence little conclusion in that region can be136
drawn. It is, however, still possible to study helium band EMIC waves down to the inner137
boundary (4 RE).138
2.3. Data Reduction in the Frequency Domain
In the above procedure, the three axis magnetic field data in the time domain were139
Fourier transformed in the frequency domain to three components of complex magnetic140
fields which are then casted to the covariance matrix [Means, 1972]. Ellipticity, , is141
determined from the complex representation of the waveform [Kodera et al., 1977]. To142
determine the wave normal angle, k, we used the covariance matrix [Means, 1972]. The143
covariance matrix element is a function of frequency and we take the wave power weighted144
average of the covariance matrix (cf. Bortnik et al. [2007]). In addition, we determine the145
wave power spectral density (PSD) and the normalized frequency, X f /fH+ where f is146
the wave frequency and fH+ is the local proton gyrofrequency.147
Finally we average these quantities over the frequency as done by Anderson et al. [1996].
At every time segment, the average quantity is calculated as the power weighted mean
over the frequency:
Aavg =
fmaxfmin
A(f)P(f)dffmaxfmin
P(f)df(1)
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where P is the wave power and A is either X, , k or P. fmin and fmax are the minimum148
and maximum wave frequencies, respectively, beyond which the wave power is below the149
threshold as read from the power spectrum at each time segment.150
The analysis of EMIC waves detected on August 31, 2007 by THEMIS-A (P5) is shown151
in Figure 2 as an example. THEMIS-A was located at pre-noon southern hemisphere in152
GSM coordinates at 0050 UT. The duration of the EMIC wave activity was four hours.153
The first two panels indicate that the transverse wave power was dominant. They also154
show that wave frequency changed from hydrogen band to helium band waves as THEMIS-155
A passed about 7.4 RE, which is also found in the fourth panel which shows average156
normalized wave frequency. Figure 2c and e indicate that the waves were mostly left-157
hand polarized and Figure 2f shows that the waves propagated almost parallel to the158
magnetic field.159
2.4. Determination of the Spatial Distribution
Figure 3 is a scatter plot of spacecraft locations in x-y and x-z planes marked only160
during the time period of the event observed by the probes. As shown in Figure 3a, most161
of the events were detected when the probes were in the noon-dusk sector (1200 MLT162
1800) and the dawn sector (0400 MLT 0900) while relatively fewer events were163
found at midnight. There is also a narrow region around 1000 MLT where fewer events164
were detected. This distribution is very similar to the distribution shown in Figure 8165
of Anderson et al. [1992a] although the AMPTE spacecraft orbit was limited to within166
9.25 RE. Figure 3b also indicates that the EMIC waves were concentrated in dayside and167
distributed in a wide range of latitude.168
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In order to obtain the equatorial distribution, the quantities are projected to the mag-169
netic equator along the magnetic fieldline, which we assume, for simplicity, to be the dipole170
field. Although the magnetic field in the outer magnetosphere may deviate from a dipole,171
this approximation should not significantly affect understanding of the essential physics.172
The equatorial plane is then partitioned into bins with x = 0.5 RE by y = 0.5 RE each173
covering all MLT and 4 RE < R < 14 RE. The quantities under study are averaged within174
each bin.175
For the meridional distribution, we divide the local time into four sectors: dawn ranging176
from 0300 to 0900 MLT, noon from 0900 to 1500 MLT, dusk from 1500 to 2100 MLT and177
night from 2100 to 0300 MLT. Each sector is partitioned into bins, each of which has size178
ofx = 0.5 RE by z = 0.5 RE.179
3. Results
3.1. Occurrence Probability
We define the occurrence probability at each bin on the equatorial plane as the ratio180
of the time portion of detecting EMIC waves to the total observing time within the bin.181
We believe that this definition is the same as that of Anderson et al. [1992a]. Figure182
4 shows the resulting equatorial distribution of the EMIC wave occurrence probability.183
The EMIC waves mostly occur at dusk (1300 < MLT < 1800) in a wide radial distance184
(8 RE < R < 12 RE) and at dawn (0500 < MLT < 0800) in relatively outer magnetosphere185
(10 RE < R < 12 RE), while they rarely occur at around midnight (2100 < MLT < 0300).186
As a result there are two peaks in the occurrence probability distribution; one is at187
dawn located around 10 RE reaching 11 % probability and the other is at dusk around 8188
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to 12 RE reaching the equally high probability. The probability decreases in the region189
further away from these peaks. Up to some radial distance, the occurrence probability190
increases as radial distance increases, and drops after 13 RE. The figure shows that the191
occurrence probability decreases significantly for R < 8 RE. Note that the result for the192
inner magnetosphere (within the geosynchronous orbit) is underestimated due to the low193
sampling rate of the magnetic field data as mentioned earlier.194
As a comparison Anderson et al. [1992a] derived the distribution of EMIC waves between195
3.5 RE and 9 RE by counting signals with peak amplitudes greater than 0.8 nT. The196
magnetic field was sampled at every 0.124 s. They found that for L > 7, waves occur with197
1020 % probability at post-noon (1200 1500 MLT) and 3% probability at dawn (0300198
0900 MLT); for L < 5 events occur with a probability of 1 % and a relatively uniform199
local time distribution. Our result is similar to that of Anderson et al. [1992a] for L > 8,200
but has several subtle differences: first, the peak occurrence probability at dawn is located201
beyond 10 RE, reaching > 10%, which is as high as the peak probability in the dusk. This202
property was not found by Anderson et al. [1992a] because their investigation was limited203
to within 9 RE. Their result, however, showed that the occurrence probability tended to204
increase with L at all MLT ranges, consistent with our result. It could thus be due to205
the radial range limit at 9.25 RE that the high occurrence at dawn was not found in their206
study. Second, Anderson et al. [1992a] reported a radial gap of the occurrence probability207
at dawn around L = 6. No feature of such a radial gap is found in our result. We have208
very few events around the inner boundary most possibly due to the low sampling rate209
magnetic field data (high frequency waves are not seen in the dynamic spectra). Third,210
a local time gap (relatively rare occurrence) at 0930 MLT in the occurrence probability211
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is clearly seen and this gap is most prominent for R > 9 RE. This gap, however, was not212
shown in Anderson et al. [1992a].213
3.2. Wave Frequency and Wave Power
Equatorial distribution of the normalized frequency is shown in Figure 5. In the color214
table adopted in this figure the blue (red) color represents a low (high) frequency and215
white color represents X = 0.25, i.e., helium gyrofrequency. At dusk, the frequencies are216
lower than helium gyrofrequency (XHe+) and at dawn the frequencies are much higher than217
helium gyrofrequency (X 0.4). Therefore emissions at these two regions are considered218
to be in the helium and hydrogen bands, respectively. This result agrees to the result219
of Anderson et al. [1992b] in which the normalized frequency decreases from 0.5 at 1000220
MLT to 0.3 at 1800 MLT and increase from 0.28 at L = 3 5 to 0.39 at L = 8 9 (for221
12001500 MLT).222
The meridional distributions of the normalized frequency are shown in Figure 6. At223
dawn, the normalized frequency tends to decrease at high latitude while it is almost224
constant with latitude at dusk, which also agrees to Anderson et al. [1992b]. In addition225
we note that at noon the normalized frequency changes from low ( X < 0.25) to high226
(X 0.4) values as the radial distance increases.227
Wave power distribution is shown in Figure 7 together with the thermal density, perpen-228
dicular ion temperature, and ion temperature anisotropy, as they are important factors229
in EMIC wave generation [Gary and Lee, 1994]. Note that there is a great similarity230
between the wave power distribution and the occurrence probability distribution (Figure231
4) so that strong events can be found in the regions of high occurrence probability, i.e.,232
the dusk and dawn sector. Likewise the midnight and the 1000 MLT sector have weaker233
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wave power. The dusk events have relatively high amplitudes often exceeding 10 nT2/Hz,234
which is higher than those of the dawn events (3 nT2/Hz). In comparison with Figure 5,235
the high amplitude is related to helium band EMIC waves at dusk and inner part of noon236
while relatively low amplitude is related to hydrogen band waves at dawn and outer part237
of noon.238
The instability condition for EMIC waves [Gary and Lee, 1994] is more likely to be met239
in the region of higher thermal density, higher ion temperature anisotropy and weaker field240
strength. Figure 7b-d shows that the dusk region of strong wave power has the high density241
and high ion perpendicular temperature ideal for the growth of EMIC instability. On the242
other hand the dawn region has low density ( 1 cm3), but has higher ion temperature243
anisotropy (> 1), and low magnetic field strength, which are arguably important factors244
for EMIC wave instability.245
3.3. Polarization and Normal Angle
The ellipticity distribution is shown in Figure 8. One general trend is that the noon-dusk246
waves are predominantly left hand polarized ( < 0.3) while dawn waves are mostly lin-247
early polarized ( 0). Note that this pattern in polarization distribution resembles that248
of the normalized frequency distribution. However, there are a few discrepancies. First,249
the noon-dusk events are left-hand polarized at < 10 RE and linearly polarized beyond250
10 RE with little dependence on local time. However, the normalized frequency (Figure 5)251
gradually increases with local time. In the noon sector, hydrogen band EMIC waves (the252
red colored region in Figure 5) become dominant as the radial distance increases, whereas253
the waves remain left-hand polarized.254
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Meridional distributions of polarization are shown in Figure 9. The distribution at dawn255
is obtained by averaging polarizations at each latitude in the range of 0300 < MLT < 0900.256
Likewise noon, dusk, and midnight distributions are results of averaging over 0900 15). At R > 12 RE,260
the polarization, however, remains almost linear at all magnetic latitudes. At noon (Figure261
9b) and dusk (Figure 9c), the waves are left-hand polarized at all magnetic latitudes except262
at the region of high latitude and large radial distance, where the polarization changes to263
the right-hand sense.264
Anderson et al. [1992b] also reported the dominance of the linear polarization at dawn265
and left-hand polarization at dusk. In our result, the helium (hydrogen) band waves266
appear to be related to the left-hand (linear) polarized waves except for the waves at267
noon where left-hand polarization is dominant regardless of the wave frequency. Another268
new result in this study is that our meridional distribution at dawn shows change of269
polarization with latitude whereas Anderson et al. [1992b] found the linear polarization270
dominates at all magnetic latitudes.271
Wave normal angles are shown in Figure 10 with the same color table in which blue to272
red colors correspond to the angle varying from 10 to 80 and is centered at white color273
corresponding to 45. At dawn, oblique propagating waves (k > 45) are dominant and at274
noon and dusk quasi-parallel propagating waves (k 30) are dominant. When compared275
to the ellipticity distribution, it is obvious that the wave normal angle distribution is very276
similar to the polarization distribution.277
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The meridional distribution of wave normal angle is shown in Figure 11 in the same278
format as Figure 6. At dawn, the wave normal angle is generally greater than 45 and279
becomes more oblique at larger radial distance. The wave normal angle does not vary280
with latitude along a given fieldline. At noon and dusk, the wave normal angle is generally281
less than 30 at all latitudes. There is a weak trend that waves become more oblique in282
the outer magnetosphere.283
4. Discussion
We discuss our results of EMIC wave properties mainly based on the theoretical model284
ofHorne and Thorne [1994]. The model provides a linear convective instability analysis of285
EMIC waves designed for a comprehensive understanding of the result of Anderson et al.286
[1992a, b] and is considered appropriate for the present result as well. In the model, all the287
wave properties are physically interrelated to each other, and can, on the first hand, be288
organized in terms of the wave frequency, because wave properties are determined by the289
dispersion relation as a function of frequency. Horne and Thorne [1994] discussed wave290
properties in three frequency regimes: guided mode below helium gyrofrequency X < 0.25,291
and unguided mode between the helium gyrofrequency and the crossover frequency, Xcr,292
and a guided mode above Xcr. At X = Xcr the dispersion curves for the L and R modes293
are coupled each other and therefore a mode may change to the other depending on294
inhomogeneity. For a cold H+He+ plasma, the expression for the cross frequency is given295
by Smith and Brice [1964]. In our notation, Xcr = 0.25(1 + 15)1/2 where = NHe+/Ne296
is the helium abundance.297
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4.1. Dusk Waves
The dusk wave occurrence probability found in this study mostly agrees to the previ-298
ous results [Anderson et al., 1992a, b; Fraser and Nguyen, 2001] in that they have low299
frequency X < 0.25 corresponding to helium band, and are strongly left-hand polarized300
with low wave normal angles (< 30).301
Horne and Thorne [1994] modeled the noon-dusk waves with a high density (ne 302
10 cm3) without distinction of the noon sector from the dusk sector. Through the303
path-integrated wave gain calculation they showed that the intense convective growth304
amplification occurs at frequencies in the helium band (X 0.25) and an unguided mode305
waves (0.25 X Xcr) have strong growth rate.306
This model well reproduces our result that the dusk waves have mostly X 0.25307
(Figure 5) in which case the high wave power at dusk (Figure 7) can thus be understood308
as due to strong growth of the guided mode in the helium band. The strong growth rate309
of the guided waves also comes with strong left-hand polarization, consistent with the310
observation of elipticity < 0.2 (Figure 8). The small wave normal angles (< 30) in311
Figure 10 also support the hypothesis that they are guided waves. It is thus the high312
thermal density that mostly characterizes the properties of the EMIC waves observed in313
the dusk sector.314
4.2. Noon Waves
In the noon sector we can see both a high density region at 6 9 RE extending from315
the dusk sector and a low density region at 9 12 RE extending from the dawn sector.316
This density profile is reflected in the normalized frequency distribution in Figure 5. As317
the wave frequency increases with radial distance, the wave power decreases.318
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We compare the observed interrelation among density, frequency, and wave power with319
the model prediction of the waves generated above XHe+ and below Xcr, because the fre-320
quency of waves in the outer region of the noon sector is higher ( X > 0.25) compared321
with the dusk waves but lower than that of dawn waves (X 0.4). Since the noon wave322
frequency lies between 0.25 < X < 0.4, the noon waves are likely to be the unguided323
waves as discussed in Horne and Thorne [1994]. If we tentatively take the observed upper324
bound frequency (X 0.4) in the noon as the crossover frequency, then the helium abun-325
dance, NHe+/Ne at noon should be as high as 10 %, consistent with previous observations326
Anderson et al. [1996].327
In this interpretation, the relatively weaker wave power in the noon sector than the328
dusk sector may be attributed to nature of the unguided mode in the noon sector. The329
increasing wave frequency and decreasing wave power with radial distance at noon should330
then indicate the dominance of the unguided mode with radial distance.331
4.3. Dawn Waves
The high occurrence probability and strong wave power of EMIC wave in the dawn332
sector is one of the new findings of this study with the inclusion of the outer magneto-333
sphere beyond 9 RE enabled by the THEMIS spacecraft. According to Horne and Thorne334
[1994]s model, in the presence of a low density (Ne 2 cm3), the instability below the335
helium gyrofrequency (X < 0.25) is suppressed, and instead significant instabilities at336
high frequencies X 0.25 are possible if the energetic ions have sufficient anisotropy.337
Figure 7b and d shows that the dawn sector indeed has such a condition of low density338
and high anisotropy as required to generate high frequency (X = 0.40.5) and high wave339
power ( 1 nT2/Hz) EMIC waves observed in the dawn (Figure 5 and 7).340
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The linear polarization of EMIC waves observed in the dawn has been of great interest341
for theoretical studies. Either the waves are generated with oblique propagation angles and342
nearly linear polarization [Denton et al., 1992; Hu and Denton, 2009; Hu et al., 2010] or343
produced as merely a propagation effect when waves are reflected in the magnetosphere344
[Horne and Thorne, 1994]. Mode conversion from L- to R-mode could be one simple345
explanation of the linear polarization, which was, however, not favored for a couple of346
reasons. One argument against it was that the frequency of dawn waves is too high347
compared with the presumable crossover frequency in the region for the mode coupling348
process to take place [Anderson et al., 1992b]. Another reason could be that Anderson349
et al.s results showed only the linear polarization at all latitudes and there was no need350
to further consider the mode conversion theory.351
In the present result, however, the mode conversion scenario is an attractive one because352
the left hand polarization is seen near the equator and then it rather changes to right-353
hand polarization at high magnetic latitudes. Both left- and right-hand polarizations are354
observed to be very weak ( 0) and wave normal angles are large in the dawn sector.355
Hu et al. [2010] showed that the waves can be generated with large wave normal angle356
when the helium composition is small. Since helium abundance is expected to be low at357
dawn our observations are not contradictory to the theoretical modeling of EMIC wave358
generation. Rather Hu et al. [2010]s result that waves can be generated with oblique359
wave normal angle in the small helium composition is consistent with our observation.360
On the other hand, the large wave normal angles at all magnetic latitude is also a factor361
favorable for the mode conversion [Young et al., 1981]. The propagation effect proposed by362
Horne and Thorne [1994] would also not preclude the detectability of the weak left-hand363
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polarization near the equator. Depending on how much waves are damped per transit the364
weak L mode signature may remain. In any case these arguments were made in response365
to the AMPTE/CCE observations by Anderson et al. [1992b] that the linear polarization366
is seen at all latitudes. The models themselves predict the properties found in this study367
as well.368
The issue that dawn waves have frequencies much higher than the presumable crossover369
frequency [Young et al., 1981] still deserves attention. We have not determined helium370
abundance at dawn, but if we use a typical value 1 % [Anderson et al., 1996], the371
crossover frequency is only Xcr 0.27. In contrast, our observation, the wave frequency at372
the equator is Xeq = 0.45 and even though it travels to 15 north or south under the dipole373
magnetic field, X changes only to 0.33 (see Figure 5). Conversely if we require Xcr = 0.33374
off the equator, at least 5 % of helium content is needed. It is thus not so obvious how to375
argue for the mode conversion at these frequencies with the dispersion relation expected376
for the cold H+He+ plasma. A more detailed calculation of the dispersion relation may377
be needed in order to interpret the polarization of EMIC waves observed in the dawn side378
(cf. Johnson and Cheng [1999] and Lee et al. [2008]).379
5. Summary
We have investigated the global distribution of EMIC waves using four years of THEMIS380
observations and interpreted our new results mainly based on the linear stability study381
presented by Horne and Thorne [1994]. The results of wave occurrence rate, polarization382
and wave power are mostly similar to the earlier results by Anderson et al. [1992a, b]383
except a few significant differences.384
1. The occurrence rate at dawn peaks above R > 9 RE, and is as high as that of the385
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peak occurrence rate at dusk (11 %). The high occurrence probability in the outer dawn386
region is considered to be due to the low group velocity of high frequency hydrogen band387
EMIC waves with radial distance.388
2. The polarization at dawn is mostly linear as known earlier. However, it changes with389
latitude in such a way that it is weakly left hand polarized near the equator, and becomes390
linearly polarized at other latitudes, and even changes to right hand polarization at high391
latitudes. This observation suggests that the mode conversion occurs at dawn.392
3. The wave normal angles are large at dawn (> 45) and thus the EMIC waves at dawn393
are obliquely propagating whereas the waves at dusk are quasi-parallel to the field lines394
(< 30). This is consistent with existing theoretical models for EMIC wave generation395
[Hu et al., 2010].396
Acknowledgments. We acknowledge NASA contract NAS5-02099 and V. Angelopou-397
los for use of data from the THEMIS Mission. Specifically, we thank J. W. Bonnell and F.398
S. Mozer for use of EFI data, C. W. Carlson and J. P. McFadden for use of ESA data. We399
also acknowledge K. H. Glassmeier, U. Auster and W. Baumjohann for the use of FGM400
data provided under the lead of the Technical University of Braunschweig and with finan-401
cial support through the German Ministry for Economy and Technology and the German402
Center for Aviation and Space (DLR) under contract 50 OC 0302. We thank Andrei J.403
Runov, J. P. McCollough, Richard E. Denton and Yoshi Miyoshi for discussion. This work404
is partly carried out by the joint research program of the Solar-Terrestrial Environment405
Laboratory, Nagoya University, Japan. Space physics research in NJIT has been funded406
by NASA grant NAS5-01072. JL was also supported by NSF grant NSF-ANT-083995.407
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x [RE]
y[R
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Figure 1. Total hours of the magnetic field observations from all spacecraft on the
magnetic equator. The hours are shown in logarithmic scale. The spacecraft positions
were projected along the dipole magnetic fieldline to the magnetic equator. The sun is on
the right and the concentric dashed circles represent the radial distances as labeled. The
bin size is 0.5 by 0.5 RE.
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(a)Pz
freq[Hz]
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9.601.332.2101:15
9.361.152.1601:30
9.110.972.1101:45
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7.650.041.8303:00
7.300.141.7803:15
6.930.331.7203:30
6.540.521.6603:45
6.120.711.6004:00
Figure 2. An example of identified EMIC waves showing spectral wave power (a)
parallel and (b) perpendicular to the background magnetic field, (c) ellipticity, average
(d) normalized wave frequency, (e) ellipticity and (f) wave normal angle, and (g) average
wave power. The EMIC waves were detected by THEMIS-A (P5) between 0050 and 0350
UT on August 31, 2007. THEMIS-A, inbound from the southern hemisphere in GSM
coordinates, was passing noon meridian at 0305 UT. The thick solid lines in the first
three panels (a, b and c) indicate local helium and oxygen gyrofrequencies, respectively.
Color bars in the first two panels (a and b) are logarithmically scaled. Polarization sense in
ellipticity (c) is indicated by the sign of the color bar (positive being right-hand polarized).
Dashed line at fourth panel (d) indicates helium gyrofrequency.
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(a)
(b)
Figure 3. Positions of spacecraft during the EMIC wave observations. The inner circle
is at 4 RE. They are shown in (a) x-y and (b) x-z planes. The sun is on the right.
x [RE
]
y[RE
]
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Figure 4. EMIC occurrence probability projected on the magnetic equatorial plane
along the dipole magnetic field. The probability is shown in logarithmic scale. The figure
format is the same as Figure 1.
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Figure 5. Average normalized wave frequency (X = f /fH+). Red-blue color table is
chosen in which the white corresponds to fHe+. The figure format is the same as Figure
1.
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Figure 6. Average normalized frequency distribution in the meridional plane for
(a) dawn (0300
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Figure 7. The equatorial distribution of (a) average peak wave power, (b) electron
density, (c) perpendicular temperature (Ti,) and (d) temperature anisotropy (Ti/Ti1).
The figure formats are same as Figure 1. The electron density was derived from the
spacecraft potential and the data was only available after June 2008. The temperature
and thus anisotropy was derived from ESA data. The electron density and temperature
are collected during each event. Despite presence of EMIC waves, some parts in b, c and
d are missing due to absence of data. In panel c, the maximum temperature in the color
scale is set to 5 keV for better visibility in dayside. The temperature is saturated in most
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Figure 8. Equatorial distribution of average wave ellipticity, . Negative (positive)
values of indicate left (right) hand polarization sense. = 0 corresponds to linear
polarization and colored white. The figure format is the same as Figure 1.
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0
5
Ellipticity,
0.4
0.2
0
0.2
0.4
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Figure 9. Meridional distribution of ellipticity. The same color scale as Figure 8 is
adopted. The figure format is the same as Figure 6.
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x [RE
]
y[RE]
Averaged Wave Normal Angle
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10 5 0 5 10
10
5
0
5
10
WaveNormalAngle,k
[]
0
30
60
90
Figure 10. Equatorial distribution of average wave normal angle, k, measured from
the local magnetic field direction. The wave vector direction is not shown. 45 is colored
white. The figure format is the same as Figure 1.
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R [RE
]
z[RE
]
Averaged Wave Normal Angle
Dawn 0300 < MLT < 1000
15
0
15
4 6 8 10 12 145
0
5
WaveNormalA
ngle,k
[]
10
45
80
R [RE
]
z[RE
]
Averaged Wave Normal Angle
Noon 1000 < MLT < 1500
15
0
15
4 6 8 10 12 145
0
5
WaveNormalA
ngle,k
[]
10
45
80
R [RE
]
z[RE
]
Averaged Wave Normal Angle
Dusk 1500 < MLT < 2100
15
0
15
4 6 8 10 12 145
0
5
WaveNormalAngle,k
[]
10
45
80
R [RE
]
z[RE
]
Averaged Wave Normal Angle
Night 2100 < MLT < 0300
15
0
15
4 6 8 10 12 145
0
5
WaveNormalAngle,k
[]
10
45
80
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Figure 11. Meridional distribution of wave normal angle. The same color scale as
Figure 10 is adopted. The figure format is the same as Figure 6.