Excitation of Low- and High-frequency Magnetosonic Whistler Waves
Associated with SLAMS in the Terrestrial Foreshock
Abstract
Based on observations from the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, this
study presents an analysis of a short large-amplitude magnetic
structures (SLAMS) event with simultaneous occurrence of low- and
high-frequency magnetosonic whistler waves. It was found that
low-frequency magnetosonic whistler waves around the lower-hybrid
frequency emerge in the presence of solar wind ions and local low-energy
ions in the trailing region of SLAMS. Additionally, counter-propagating
whistler waves (the high-frequency branch of the magnetosonic whistler
wave) are observed within SLAMS, coinciding with a perpendicular
temperature anisotropy in the electron population. Instability analyses
demonstrate that these low-frequency waves are induced by the two-stream
instability associated with the cross-field drift of low-energy ions
relative to electrons, while whistler waves are locally generated by the
whistler anisotropy instability. Our results shed light on the impact of
SLAMS on particle and wave dynamics in the terrestrial foreshock.