A quantitative model for cyclotron wave-particle interactions at the plasmapause

Details A quantitative model for cyclotron wave-particle interactions at the plasmapause A quantitative model for cyclotron wave-particle interactions at the plasmapause

Mar 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998angeo..16..322p&link_type=abstract

Annales Geophysicae, vol. 16, Issue 3, pp.322-330

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The formation of a zone of energetic electron precipitation by the plasmapause, a region of enhanced plasma density, following energetic particle injection during a magnetic storm, is analyzed. Such a region can also be formed by detached cold plasma clouds appearing in the outer magnetosphere by restructuring of the plasmasphere during a magnetic storm. As a mechanism of precipitation, wave-particle interactions by the cyclotron instability between whistler-mode waves and electrons are considered. In the framework of the self-consistent equations of quasi-linear plasma theory, the distribution function of trapped electrons and the electron precipitation pattern are found. The theoretical results are compared with experimental data obtained from NOAA satellites.

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