Wave generation in the terrestrial magnetosphere

Details Wave generation in the terrestrial magnetosphere Wave generation in the terrestrial magnetosphere

Mar 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983ssrv...34..259s&link_type=abstract

(COSPAR, IAU, IUGG, IUPAP, and URSI, International Symposium on Progress in Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 5th, Ottawa, Canada, May

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Earth Magnetosphere, Plasma Waves, Space Plasmas, Wave Generation, Equatorial Atmosphere, Ionospheric Heating, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Plasma Resonance, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Ring Currents

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A study is undertaken of the wave phenomena, extending from 1 mHz to 1 MHz, that are generated in the magnetosphere, with attention to the interplay between the background macroscopic features of the system, the geometry, the large scale flow, and the microphysics of the plasma populations that take part. Solar wind-induced convection produces pathological plasma phase space distributions which may have steep spatial gradients, inverted energy distributions, or strong pitch angle anisotropy. Any of these can act as a free energy source for plasma waves. If the electrons carrying the large currents which transmit stresses between the magnetosphere and the ionosphere have a sufficiently high velocity, waves are generated.

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