Measurement of the electron beam mode in earth's foreshock

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Bow Waves, Electron Beams, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Shock Wave Interaction, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Solar Wind, Collisionless Plasmas, Electric Fields, Electrostatic Waves, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Sound Waves

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High frequency electric field measurements from the AMPTE IRM plasma wave receiver are used to identify three simultaneously excited electrostatic wave modes in the earth's foreshock region: the electron beam mode, the Langmuir mode, and the ion acoustic mode. A technique is developed which allows the rest frame frequecy and wave number of the electron beam waves to be determined. It is shown that the experimentally determined rest frame frequency and wave number agree well with the most unstable frequency and wave number predicted by linear homogeneous Vlasov theory for a plasma with Maxwellian background electrons and a Lorentzian electron beam. From a comparison of the experimentally determined and theoretical values, approximate limits are put on the electron foreshock beam temperatures. A possible generation mechanism for ion acoustic waves involving mode coupling between the electron beam and Langmuir modes is also discussed.

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