Field-aligned currents (FACs) behaviour during the arrival of interplanetary magnetic shock

• Published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series
• Main Author: Adilah Mohd Kasran F.; Huzaimy Jusoh M.; Adhikari B.; Amalina Enche Ab Rahim S.
• Format: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2019
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063892173&doi=10.1088%2f1742-6596%2f1152%2f1%2f012027&partnerID=40&md5=85db795f09320066a1eac7df26d457da

In this paper, our study is focused on the FACs behavior during the SC event. SC consists of two events which are storm sudden commencement (SSC) and sudden impulse (SI) event. The difference between these two events is that the interplanetary shock due to SSC leads to geomagnetic storm while during SI event, there is no geomagnetic storm afterward. We performed the statistical analysis between the FACs value and the temporal variation of SYMH index (dSYMH/dt) during SC events from 2008 until 2015. The dSYMH/dt describe the interplanetary shock signature during the SC events. The results showed that the dSYMH/dt during SSC event has a better correlation than the dSYMH/dt during SI events. It suggested that during the SSC onset, there is the magnetic reconnection process between magnetosphere and ionosphere. So, the enhancement of ground magnetic field is contributed by both magnetospheric and ionospheric currents. However, during the SI onset, least connection process happen between magnetosphere and ionosphere thus, the ground magnetic disturbance was mainly associated with the magnetospheric current. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.