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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]

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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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    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.

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    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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    x [RE

    ]

    y[RE]

    Total Electron Density

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    10

    eDensity[/cm

    3]

    0.1

    1

    10

    100

    (b)

    x

    y

    Mean Temperature (perpendicular)

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    5

    0

    5

    10

    [eV]

    0

    500

    1000

    1500

    2000

    2500

    3000

    3500

    4000

    4500

    5000(c)

    x

    y

    Mean Temperature Anisotropy

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    10

    5

    0

    5

    10

    1

    0.5

    0

    0.5

    1

    1.5(d)

    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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    y[RE]

    Averaged Ellipticity

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    5

    0

    5

    10

    Ellipticity

    ,

    0.4

    0.3

    0.2

    0.1

    0

    0.1

    0.2

    0.3

    0.4

    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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    z[RE

    ]

    Averaged Ellipticity

    Dawn 0300 < MLT < 1000

    15

    0

    15

    4 6 8 10 12 145

    0

    5

    Ellipticity,

    0.4

    0.2

    0

    0.2

    0.4

    R [RE

    ]

    z[RE

    ]

    Averaged Ellipticity

    Noon 1000 < MLT < 1500

    15

    0

    15

    4 6 8 10 12 145

    0

    5

    Ellipticity,

    0.4

    0.2

    0

    0.2

    0.4

    R [RE

    ]

    z[RE

    ]

    Averaged Ellipticity

    Dusk 1500 < MLT < 2100

    15

    0

    15

    4 6 8 10 12 145

    0

    5

    Ellipticity,

    0.4

    0.2

    0

    0.2

    0.4

    R [RE

    ]

    z[RE

    ]

    Averaged Ellipticity

    Night 2100 < MLT < 0300

    15

    0

    15

    4 6 8 10 12 145

    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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    y[RE]

    Averaged Wave Normal Angle

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    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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    ]

    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.


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