Fine structure of Langmuir waves observed upstream of the bow shock at Venus

Details Fine structure of Langmuir waves observed upstream of the bow shock at Venus Fine structure of Langmuir waves observed upstream of the bow shock at Venus

Jan 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994jgr....9913363h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 99, no. A7, p. 13,363-13,371

Physics

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Beat Frequencies, Bow Waves, Electric Fields, Electron Beams, Fine Structure, Plasma Waves, Shock Waves, Venus (Planet), Frequency Shift, Galileo Spacecraft, Solar Planetary Interactions, Wave Generation, Wave Packets

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Highly structured Langmuir waves, also known as electron plasma oscillations, have been observed in the foreshock of Venus using the plasma wave experiment on the Galileo spacecraft during the gravity assist flyby on February 10, 1990. The Galileo wideband sampling system provides digital electric field waveform measurements at sampling rates up to 201,600 samples per second, much higher than any previous instrument of this type. The main Langmuir wave emission band occurs near the local electron plasma frequency, which was approximately 43 kHz. The Langmuir waves are observed to shift above and below the plasma frequency, sometimes by as much as 20 kHz. The shifts in frequency are closely correlated with the downstream distance from the tangent field line, implying that the shifts are controlled by the electron beam velocity. Considerable fine structure is also evident, with timescales as short as 0.15 ms, corresponding to spatial scales of a few tens of Debye lengths. The frequency spectrum often consists of beat-type waveforms, with beat frequencies ranging from 0.2 to 7 kHz, and in a few cases, isolated wave packets. The peak electric field strengths are approximately 1 mV/m. These field strengths are too small for strongly nonlinear processes to be important. The beat-type waveforms are suggestive of a parametric decay process.

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