Investigating EMIC Wave Generation and Relativistic Electron Resonance

Details Investigating EMIC Wave Generation and Relativistic Electron Resonance Investigating EMIC Wave Generation and Relativistic Electron Resonance

Dec 2007

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American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SM21A-0313

Physics

2730 Magnetosphere: Inner, 2772 Plasma Waves And Instabilities (2471), 2774 Radiation Belts, 7867 Wave/Particle Interactions (2483, 6984)

Scientific paper

Wave-particle interaction of relativistic electrons with electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC) waves is thought to play an important role in radiation belt dynamics, and may be a dominant electron precipitation mechanism. We use data from the LANL MPA instruments to investigate the temperature anisotropy of ring current protons that may drive EMIC waves during relativistic electron precipitation events. These data are used as input to the WHAMP plasma dispersion code to solve for EMIC wave frequencies in a multi-species magnetized plasma. The minimum electron resonance energy is calculated and compared to balloon observations of precipitating electron energy spectra. We also use LEPA data from CRRES to investigate ion distributions during EMIC wave events identified in the Meredith et al. (2003) study.

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