Interpretation of Cluster data on chorus emissions using the backward wave oscillator model

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Apr 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004phpl...11.1345t&link_type=abstract

Physics of Plasmas, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 1345-1351 (2004).

Physics

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Electromagnetic Waves, Magnetic Storms, Substorms, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas

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The measurements of chorus emissions by four closely separated Cluster spacecraft provide important information concerning the chorus generation mechanism. They confirm such properties of the wave source as their strong localization near the equatorial cross section of a magnetic flux tube, an almost parallel average wave-vector direction with respect to the geomagnetic field, and an energy flux direction pointing outward from the generation region. Inside this region, Cluster discovered strong temporal and spatial variations in the amplitude with correlation scale lengths of the order of 100 km across the magnetic flux. The wave electric field reached 30 mV/m, and the maximum growth and damping rates are of the order of a few hundreds of s-1. These and other properties of the detected chorus emissions are discussed here in relation with the backward wave oscillator mechanism. According to this mechanism, a succession of whistler wave packets is generated in a small near-equatorial region with temporal and spatial characteristics close to the Cluster data. Amplitudes and frequency spectra, as well as dynamical features of the Poynting flux of chorus are estimated and compared with the Cluster measurements.

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