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Scientific paper
Jun 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995sowi.conf...76l&link_type=abstract
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, International Solar Wind 8 Conference, p. 76
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Electron Plasma, Electrostatic Waves, Magnetic Field Configurations, Plasma Density, Plasma Frequencies, Radio Bursts, Solar Wind, Wave Excitation, Electron Energy, Ulysses Mission, Extremely Low Frequencies, Whistlers, Cyclotron Frequency
Scientific paper
Magnetic holes in the solar wind, which are characterized by isolated local depressions in the magnetic field magnitude, have been observed previously. The Unified Radio and Plasma Wave (URAP) instrument of Ulysses has found that within such magnetic structures, electrostatic waves at kHz frequency and ultralow frequency electromagnetic waves are often excited and seen as short duration wave bursts. Most of these bursts occur near the ambient electron plasma frequency, which suggests that the waves are Langmuir waves. Such waves are usually excited by electron streams. Some evidence of the streaming of energetic electrons required for exciting Langmuir waves has been observed. These electrons may have originated at sources near the Sun, which would imply that the magnetic structures containing the waves would exist as long channels formed by field and plasma conditions near the Sun. On the other hand, the electrons could be suprathermal 'tails' from wave collapse processes occurring near the spacecraft. In either case, the Langmuir waves excited in the magnetic holes provide a measurement of the plasma density inside the holes. Low frequency electromagnetic waves, having frequencies of a fraction of the local electron cyclotron frequency, sometimes accompany the Langmuir waves observed in magnetic holes. Waves excited in this frequency range are very likely to be whistler-mode waves. They may have been excited by an electron temperature anisotropy which has been observed in the vicinity of the magnetic holes or generated through the decay of Langmuir waves.
Balogh André
Forsyth Robert J.
Kellogg Paul J.
Lin Naiguo
MacDowall R.
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