Friday, May 11, 2012

1205.2229 (Ch. Katsavrias et al.)

Wavelet Analysis on Solar Wind Parameters and Geomagnetic Indices    [PDF]

Ch. Katsavrias, P. Preka-Papadema, X. Moussas
The sun as an oscillator produces frequencies which propagate in the heliosphere, via solar wind, to the terrestrial magnetosphere. We searched for those frequencies in the parameters of the near Earth solar plasma and the geomagnetic indices for the past four solar cycles. The solar wind parameters used in this work are the interplanetary magnetic field, plasma beta, Alfven Mach number, solar wind speed, plasma temperature, plasma pressure, plasma density and the geomagnetic indices DST, AE, Ap and Kp. We found out that each parameter of the solar wind exhibit certain periodicities which di?erentiate in each cycle. Our results indicate intermittent periodicities in our data, some of them shared between the solar wind parameters and geomagnetic indices.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2229

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