A simulation study of cold electron heating by loss cone instabilities

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Nov 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980georl...7..889a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 7, Nov. 1980, p. 889-892.

Physics

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Electron Cyclotron Heating, Ionospheric Disturbances, Magnetospheric Instability, Plasma Waves, Atmospheric Models, Computerized Simulation, Cyclotron Resonance, Electron Energy, Hot Electrons, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability

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Results are presented of a computer simulation study of electron cyclotron harmonic waves; an electrostatic finite size particle simulation code is used. The initial electron velocity distribution function is modeled as a hot ring perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field and a cold Maxwellian component. Nonlinear cyclotron resonance is found to be the saturation mechanism of the unstable waves and the heating mechanism of the cold electrons. The results can be related to certain ionospheric phenomena.

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