Detailed spectral structure of magnetospheric electron bursts precipitated by lightning

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Cyclotron Resonance, Electron Precipitation, Lightning, Magnetospheric Electron Density, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Magnetic Equator, Radiation Sources, Spectrum Analysis, Virginia, Wallops Island, Whistlers

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The temporal structure of electron fluxes precipitated by lightning that was measured at night over Wallops Island, Virginia, during August 1984 has been analyzed. A component of the precipitating electrons is almost certainly due to equatorial wave-particle interactions involving equatorial electron cyclotron resonance (EECR) with whistlers which produce pitch angle scattering. Precipitated electron fluxes of equatorial origin are characterized by a very steep spectral power exponent of about -20 above 100 keV. A second electron distribution from some other origin is also found whose time-integrated energy flux appears to be about equal in magnitude to the fluxes identified with the EECR processes.

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