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Yumoto & Saito 1983
Yumoto, K. and Saito, T. (1983). Relation of compressional HM waves at goes 2 to low-latitude Pc 3 magnetic pulsations. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: doi: 10.1029/JA080i012p10041. issn: 0148-0227.

Daytime magnetic pulsations observed at synchronous orbit by GOES 2 are analyzed to determine whether there is a candidate for the source of low-latitude Pc 3's in the outer magnetosphere. Compressional, radially transverse and azimuthally transverse modes of magnetic pulsations in a wide frequency range exist simutaneously in the outer daytime magnetosphere. The compressional and the transverse modes of the daytime magnetic pulsations observed at GOES 2 are statistically dominant in the Pc 3 and in the Pc 4 frequency ranges, respectively. Some 70 % of the compressional Pc 3 pulsations at GOES 2 have periods similar to the low-latitude Pc 3's observed at San Gabriel Canyon, which is located ~11¿ west of GOES 2's longitude at L=1.8. Amplitude of the compressional Pc 3 pulsations at GOES 2 (L=6.67) are relatively larger than those of the low-latitude Pc 3's at SGC (L=1.8). The transverse pulsations with larger amplitude (ΔB>1.0 nT) at GOES 2 can propogate only into the high-latitude ionosphere. The compressional Pc 3 pulsations with smaller amplitude (ΔB~0.5 nT) at GOES 2 are theoretically expected to propagate across the ambient magnetic field to very low latitudes to couple with one or more the following: (1) a surface wave at the plasmapause (Lpp); (2) a trapped oscillation of the fast magnetosonic wave in the plasmasphere (L=1.7-Lpp); (3) a higher-harmonic standing oscillation of a local field line at mid-latitude (L=2.0-Lpp); or (4) a fundamental standing oscillation at very low-latitudes (L=1.1 and 1.7-2.6). Although further research is needed to clarify the wave and propagation characteristics of the low-latitude Pc 3 pulsations, we believe that the compressional Pc 3 magnetic pulsation in the outer magnetosphere is one candidate for the source of the low-latitude Pc 3 magnetic pulsation.

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