Proton precipitation by a whistler-mode wave from a VLF transmitter

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Earth Magnetosphere, Electromagnetic Interactions, Propagation Modes, Proton Precipitation, Very Low Frequencies, Whistlers, Electromagnetic Pulses, Electron Flux Density, Elementary Particle Interactions, Satellite Observation, Time Dependence, Time Lag, Wave Propagation

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Results are reported for a series of wave-particle interaction experiments in which VLF waves were transmitted into the magnetosphere from a site near Anchorage, Alaska, and protons with energies between 50 and 530 keV were detected by sensors aboard satellite 1972-76B at an altitude of 700 km in a region conjugate to the transmitter. A diffusion-equilibrium model was chosen for the plasmasphere, and the VLF waves were assumed to be unducted whistler-mode waves which interact with protons at the equator through either a Doppler-shifted cyclotron resonance or a traveling-wave-tube resonance. Temporal maxima in the proton count rates were identified on a one-to-one basis with short pulsed transmissions from the VLF transmitter. The observed time lag between the center of a transmitted pulse and detection of the next maximum in proton count rate was found to agree well with the delay predicted from the plasmaspheric model.

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