Plasma wave observations with the Dynamics Explorer 1 spacecraft

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May 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988rvgeo..26..285g&link_type=abstract

Reviews of Geophysics (ISSN 8755-1209), vol. 26, May 1988, p. 285-316.

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Geophysics

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Dynamics Explorer 1 Satellite, Earth Magnetosphere, Kilometric Waves, Plasma Waves, Space Plasmas, Atmospheric Radiation, Auroras, Ion Cyclotron Radiation, Satellite Instruments, Very Low Frequencies

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This paper reviews the results from the plasma wave instrument on the Dynamics Explorer 1 (DE-1) spacecraft. The DE-1 spacecraft was launched on August 3, 1981, into an elliptical polar orbit with initial perigee and apogee radial distances of 1.09 and 4.65 earth radii. In the roughly six years since the launch of the spacecraft, DE-1 has provided basic new information on a wide variety of magnetospheric plasma wave phenomena. These include auroral kilometric radiation, auroral hiss, Z mode radiation, narrow-band electromagnetic emissions associated with equatorial upper hybrid waves, whistler mode emissions, wave-particle interactions stimulated by ground VLF transmitters, equatorial ion-cyclotron emissions, ion Bernstein-mode emissions, and electric field turbulence along the auroral field lines. A brief review of the basic plasma wave modes that can exist in the equatorial and polar regions of the magnetosphere is first given. After the basic terminology is established, each of the above areas of plasma wave research is discussed in detail, first by reviewing the state of knowledge at the time of the DE-1 launch, and then by describing the contribution made by DE-1 in the six years since the spacecraft was launched.

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