HR: 0800h
AN: SM51A-11    [Abstracts]
TI: Analysis of perturbations near FTEs in the magnetopause region
AU: * Sosa-Salas, M
EM: mayalol@geofisica.unam.mx
AF: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, IGEF, Instituto de Geofisica, CU, Coyoacan, Mexico, DF 04510, Mexico
AU: Blanco-Cano, X
EM: xbc@geofisica.unam.mx
AF: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, IGEF, Instituto de Geofisica, CU, Coyoacan, Mexico, DF 04510, Mexico
AU: Russell, C T
EM: ctrussel@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: University of California, IGPP, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
AU: Le, G
EM: guan.le@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 674, Space Weather Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Zheng, Y
EM: Yihua.Zheng@jhuapl.edu
AF: AF: Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd, Laurel, MD 20723, United States
AB: The moment and energy transferred by the solar wind to Earth's magnetosphere is controlled mainly by the magnetic reconnection occurring in the vicinity of the subsolar point and the amount of interplanetary magnetic field with south Bz component. A manifestation of the variant reconnection in space and time are Flux Transfer Events (FTEs). We present an analysis of possible wave perturbations found near or within FTE's observed by Polar in the years 2000-2003. The disturbances were characterized using FFT, minimum variance analysis and maximum entropy method. Wave mode identification is performed based on wave properties.
DE: 2724 Magnetopause and boundary layers
DE: 2772 Plasma waves and instabilities (2471)
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly