Excitation of Low‐ and High‐Frequency Magnetosonic Whistler Waves Associated With SLAMS in the Terrestrial Foreshock

Abstract

AbstractBased 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 relative velocity between low‐energy ions and 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.