Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jgr...103..431m&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 103, Issue A1, p. 431-438
Physics
Plasma Physics
3
Ionosphere: Auroral Ionosphere, Ionosphere: Particle Precipitation, Magnetospheric Physics: Auroral Phenomena, Space Plasma Physics: Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration
Scientific paper
An electron conic has been reported from low-altitude particle observations of Dynamics Explorer 2 (DE 2). It has been suggested that the source of the electron conic is an oscillating parallel electric field, perhaps associated with an inertial Alfvén wave. We report here on electric field observations made at midaltitude by Dynamics Explorer 1 and at low altitude by DE 2 during the same time as the electron conic observations of Burch [1995]. We find evidence for oscillations of E∥ with frequency f~0.5Hz, in agreement with the model of electron conics presented by Thompson and Lysak. However, there are discrepancies in the measured values of E∥/E⊥ and B/E compared with those expected for Alfvén waves. We believe these discrepancies may be due to nonlinear effects.
Menietti Douglas J.
Weimer Daniel R.
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