%0 Journal Article %@holdercode {isadg {BR SPINPE} ibi 8JMKD3MGPCW/3DT298S} %@dissemination WEBSCI %@archivingpolicy denypublisher denyfinaldraft12 %@secondarytype PRE PI %@issn 0080-4614 %@nexthigherunit 8JMKD3MGPCW/3EU29DP %D 2008 %4 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m17@80/2008/06.05.13.40 %T Experimental evidence of phase coherence of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the solar wind: GEOTAIL satellite data %@usergroup administrator %@usergroup banon %@usergroup marciana %@usergroup simone %V 366 %@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) %@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) %@affiliation E.S.S.T., Kyushu University %@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) %X Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is commonly observed in the solar wind. Nonlinear interactions among MHD waves are likely to produce finite correlation of the wave phases. For discussions of various transport processes of energetic particles, it is fundamentally important to determine whether the wave phases are randomly distributed (as assumed in the quasi-linear theory) or have a finite coherence. Using a method based on the surrogate data technique, we analysed the GEOTAIL magnetic field data to evaluate the phase coherence in MHD turbulence in the Earth's foreshock region. The results demonstrate the existence of finite phase correlation, indicating that nonlinear wave wave interactions are in progress. %8 Feb. %@versiontype publisher %@area CEA %@secondarykey INPE--PRE/ %@electronicmailaddress daiki@dge.inpe.br %@documentstage not transferred %K magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, nonlinear interactions, phase coherence, solar wind. %@doi 10.1098/rsta.2007.2102 %@group %@group DGE-CEA-INPE-MCT-BR %@group %@group DGE-CEA-INPE-MCT-BR %N 1864 %P 447-457 %A Koga, D., %A Chian, Abraham Chian-Long, %A Hada, T., %A Rempel, Érico Luiz, %B Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences %2 sid.inpe.br/mtc-m17@80/2008/06.05.13.40.48