The relationship between the strength of the IMF and the frequency of magnetic pulsations on the ground and in the solar wind |
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Authors: | CA Green TJ Odera WF Stuart |
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Institution: | Geomagnetism Unit, Institute of Geological Sciences, Murchsion House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH93LA, U.K. |
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Abstract: | It has been established for some time that there is a correlation between the frequency of Pc 3–4 geomagnetic pulsations observed on the ground and the strength of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). The recent discovery of an apparently similar relationship between pulsations in the same frequency band in the solar wind and the strength of the IMF led to the suggestion that some magnetospheric Pc 3–4 pulsations have an exogenic source.In this paper we offer a statistical reappraisal of some of the earlier results, and an analysis of newly available ground and solar wind pulsation data sets, which suggest that on the basis of a frequency-field strength relationship alone, the case for an exogenic source is still unproven.We do, however, find support for the frequency-field strength relationship (for ground pulsations), which was the original basis for the Borok B index for prediction of the strength of the IMF. We also confirm that pulsation frequency is, at best, an imprecise predictor and show that any derived relationship is strongly dependent on the data sets used. |
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