Cluster Chorus Sounds of Space


The following Japanese Newspaper (Shimbun) articles, all written in Japanese, reported on the sounds associated with "chorus" whislter mode waves based on observations made by the Cluster WBD instrument:

Yomiuri Shimubun: September 29, 2015
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun: September 29, 2015
Chunichi Shimbun: October 8, 2015 and October 12, 2015
Tokyo Shimbun: October 12, 2015
Kagaku Shimbun: October 9, 2015

The column of Chunichi Shimbun (October 12, 2015) reported that the chorus sounds like a love song from male to female in spring of a bird of the silver eye group, called white-eyes (MEJIRO), according to a an expert of wild birds in Japan.

The scientific publication associated with all of these articles is:

Y. Miyoshi, S. Saito, K. Seki, T. Nishiyama, R. Kataoka, K. Asamura, Y. Katoh, Y. Ebihara, T. Sakanoi, M. Hirahara, S. Oyama, S. Kurita, and O. Santolik, Relation between fine structure of energy spectra for pulsating aurora electrons and frequency spectra of whistler-mode chorus waves, J. Geophys. Res. - Space Physics, 120, 7728-7736, doi:10.1002/2015JA021562, 2015.