Inter‐Calibrated Measurements of Intense Whistlers by Arase and Van Allen Probes

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  • O. Santolík
    Department of Space Physics Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czechia
  • Y. Miyoshi
    Institute for Space‐Earth Environmental Research Nagoya University Nagoya Japan
  • I. Kolmašová
    Department of Space Physics Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czechia
  • S. Matsuda
    Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Sagamihara Kanagawa Japan
  • G. B. Hospodarsky
    Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Iowa Iowa City IA USA
  • D. P. Hartley
    Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Iowa Iowa City IA USA
  • Y. Kasahara
    Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology Kanazawa University Kanazawa Ishikawa Japan
  • H. Kojima
    Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere Kyoto University Uji Kyoto Japan
  • A. Matsuoka
    Data Analysis Center for Geomagnetism and Space Magnetism, Graduate School of Science Kyoto University Kyoto Japan
  • I. Shinohara
    Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Sagamihara Kanagawa Japan
  • W. S. Kurth
    Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Iowa Iowa City IA USA
  • C. A. Kletzing
    Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Iowa Iowa City IA USA

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Measurements of electromagnetic waves in space plasmas are an important tool for our understanding of physical processes in this environment. Inter‐calibration of data from different spacecraft missions is necessary for combining their measurements in empirical models or case studies. We show results collected during a close conjunction of the Van Allen Probes and Arase spacecraft. The inter‐calibration is based on a fortuitous case of common observations of strong whistlers at frequencies between a few hundred hertz and 10 kHz, which are generated by the same lightning strokes and which propagate along very similar paths to the two spacecraft. Measured amplitudes of the magnetic field fluctuations are the same within ∼14% precision of our analysis, corresponding to 1.2 dB. Currently, archived electric field measurements show twice larger amplitudes on Arase compared to Van Allen Probes but they start to match within ∼33% precision (2.5 dB) once the newest results on the interface of the antennas to the surrounding plasma are included in the calibration procedures. Ray tracing simulations help us to build a consistent scenario of wave propagation to both spacecraft reflected by a successful inter‐calibration of the polarization and propagation parameters obtained from multicomponent measurements. We succeed in linking the spacecraft observations to localizations of lightning return strokes by two different ground‐based networks which independently verify the correctness of the Universal Time tags of waveform measurements by both spacecraft missions, with an uncertainty better than 10 ms.</jats:p>

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