EGU24-8122, updated on 08 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8122
EGU General Assembly 2024
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Capabilities of the wave telescope for multi-scale spacecraft configurations using a Vlasiator simulation

Leonard Schulz1, Ferdinand Plaschke1, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier1,2, Uwe Motschmann3, Yasuhito Narita3, Minna Palmroth4,5, Owen Roberts6, and Lucile Turc4
Leonard Schulz et al.
  • 1Institut of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
  • 2Max-Planck Institute of Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
  • 3Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
  • 4Departement of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • 5Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
  • 6Department of Physics, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK

We present an analysis of the wave properties in Earth's foreshock and dayside magnetosphere in a Vlasiator global magnetospheric simulation, using the wave telescope analysis technique. Vlasiator is a Hybrid-Vlasov plasma simulation and treats electrons as a fluid while protons are described by distribution functions. In anticipation of future multi-scale spacecraft space plasma missions such as HelioSwarm or the proposed Plasma Observatory, artificial spacecraft constellations consisting of more than 4 satellites have been used to measure the electromagnetic field and plasma properties in the Vlasiator run. Using the wave telescope analysis technique - originally developed for the 4-spacecraft Cluster mission - power spectra in k-space are estimated, enabling the determination of properties of waves and transient phenomena from those multi-scale spacecraft data. We test different spacecraft configurations probing regions mainly in the foreshock and consider conversion to the plasma rest frame, dispersion analysis as well as spectrum filtering to account for the spatial Nyquist limit in k-space spectra.

How to cite: Schulz, L., Plaschke, F., Glassmeier, K.-H., Motschmann, U., Narita, Y., Palmroth, M., Roberts, O., and Turc, L.: Capabilities of the wave telescope for multi-scale spacecraft configurations using a Vlasiator simulation, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-8122, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-8122, 2024.

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