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Le & Russell 1990
Le, G. and Russell, C.T. (1990). A study of the coherence length of ULF waves in the Earth’s foreshock. Journal of Geophysical Research 95: doi: 10.1029/90JA01045. issn: 0148-0227.

We have examined high time resolution magnetic field data for different separations of ISEE 1 and 2 in the Earth's ion foreshock region to study the coherence length of upstream ULF waves. By examining the correlation coefficients of the low frequency waves as a function of separation distance, we find that the correlation coefficient depends mainly on the separation distance of ISEE 1 and 2 transverse to the solar wind flow. It drops to about 0.5 when the transverse separation is about 1 RE, a distance much larger than the proton thermal gyroradius in the solar wind. Thus the coherence length of the low-frequency waves is about one Earth radius, which is of the order of the wavelength, and is consistent with that estimated from the bandwidth of the waves. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1990

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Space Plasma Physics, Wave/wave interactions
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