Multi-Case Study of Kinetic Ballooning-Interchange Waves in the Plasma Sheet

Evgeny V Panov1, Wolfgang Baumjohann1, Marina V Kubyshkina2, Rumi Nakamura3 and Victor A Sergeev2, (1)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (2)St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, (3)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria
Abstract:
Using several THEMIS observations of plasma sheet oscillations with kinetic ballooning/interchange instability (BICI) signatures, we investigate the properties of the waves, and the background plasma sheet structure and dynamics with the help of adapted Tsyganenko models. We also show the ionospheric magnetic and auroral activity using conjugate ground observations.
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