VLF-emissions associated with ring current electrons - Off-equatorial observations

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Aug 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981p%26ss...29..825m&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science, vol. 29, Aug. 1981, p. 825-835.

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Airglow, Atmospheric Sounding, Magnetospheric Electron Density, Ring Currents, Satellite Sounding, Very Low Frequencies, Electron Energy, Energy Spectra, Equatorial Atmosphere, Geomagnetic Latitude, Whistlers

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Simultaneous observations of magnetospheric VLF emissions and the associated enhancement of ring current electrons up to 15 deg geomagnetic latitudes are made by the Explorer 45. Using a 4 deg inclination of orbit with a tilt angle of the earth's magnetic dipole axis of 11 deg, microdensitometer scanning of wideband data indicates that the band of missing emissions in the off-equatorial whistler mode emissions appears at f(H0)/2. Intensities above f(H0)/2 appear very weak in contrast to those of near-equatorial emissions where f(H0) is the equatorial electron gyrofrequency corresponding to the local gyrofrequency at the satellite. Whistler mode waves are reflected from high latitudes to the equator inside the source region, and the intensities of those waves are shown to be insufficient to explain the observed emissions below f(H0)/2 at the equator. Results indicate that the superposition of two types of emissions from the same processes at different locations is not the main mechanism for the formation of the two-band chorus, and the dominant sources of these choruses are located at the + or - 5 deg geomagnetic latitude.

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