Ring current and antiloss cone drift instability

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Dec 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976jgr....81.6221b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 81, Dec. 1, 1976, p. 6221-6223.

Computer Science

Numerical Analysis

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Ionospheric Drift, Magnetospheric Instability, Magnetospheric Proton Density, Nonuniform Plasmas, Proton Energy, Ring Currents, Cyclotron Frequency, Distribution Functions, Electron Energy, Numerical Analysis, Plasma Diffusion, Propagation Modes

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The quiet-time extraterrestrial ring current, which has a peak of approximately 7 earth radii, contains protons with energies in the keV range. In these high-beta plasmas which are governed by an antiloss-cone distribution function, an electromagnetic high-frequency drift instability can arise provided the strength of the antiloss cone exceeds some critical value. The growth rates associated with this antiloss-cone drift instability are of the order of or even greater than the electron cyclotron frequency.

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