Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988jgr....9310029h&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 93, Sept. 1, 1988, p. 10029-10034. Research supported by the Council for
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Auroral Zones, Coupled Modes, Electron Precipitation, Ionospheric Electron Density, Very Low Frequencies, Cyclotron Resonance, Electron Energy, Power Spectra, Whistlers
Scientific paper
Correlated auroral and VLF wave emissions have been identified at L=4 during simultaneous recordings of TV auroral images and broadband VLF emissions. Both these emissions are characterized by two sequential, nearly harmonic frequency components at about 1.3 and 3 Hz. A model is proposed on the basis of several assumptions. The 1.3- and 3.0-Hz components are presumed to be associated with strong pitch angle scattering via the cyclotron resonance interaction, when the flux levels of two different populations of energetic electrons exceed the flux trapping limit. The 3-Hz oscillation then arises from half-bounce time resonance when a flux of high-energy electrons (about 100 keV) drifts onto the flux tube of interest. In turn, the 3-Hz oscillation gives rise to a 1.3-Hz oscillation in the background low-energy electrons (about 20 keV) via the half-bounce resonance condition.
Hansen H. J.
Mravlag E.
Scourfield Malcolm J. W.
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