Electrostatic hydrogen-cyclotron wave emission below the hydrogen-cyclotron frequency in the auroral acceleration region

Details Electrostatic hydrogen-cyclotron wave emission below the hydrogen-cyclotron frequency in the auroral acceleration region Electrostatic hydrogen-cyclotron wave emission below the hydrogen-cyclotron frequency in the auroral acceleration region

Mar 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984jgr....89.1650s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 89, March 1, 1984, p. 1650-1654.

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Auroral Zones, Ion Cyclotron Radiation, Particle Acceleration, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Counterflow, Hydrogen Plasma, Ion Beams, Space Plasmas, Vertical Motion, Wave Excitation

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A mechanism is suggested for the excitation of electrostatic ion-cyclotron waves at frequencies below the ion-cyclotron frequency in the midst of the auroral acceleration region, which is assumed to consist of downward moving double layers. The mechanism involves upward flowing ions interacting with a downward flowing background plasma. The upward flowing ions are the ion beams accelerated by the double layer. The downward motion of the background plasma corresponds to a plasma expansion into the density cavity that develops in connection with double layer formation in the acceleration region. The ion-cyclotron waves excited by the counterstreaming flows are doppler shifted to frequencies below the harmonics of the ion cyclotron frequency. It is suggested that such wave emissions could account for some very narrow-banded waves at frequencies below the hydrogen cyclotron frequency that were observed by the S3-3 satellite.

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