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Investigation of plasma instabilities in the polar cusp (Document No: 19940022096)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Wong, H. K. |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | During the last six months, considerable progress was made in studying the excitation of electromagnetic waves in the whistler frequency range by an anisotropic or gyrating electron beam. A paper entitled 'Electron Cyclotron Wave Generation by Relativistic Electrons' was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Another paper entitled 'Electron Beam Excitation of Upstream Waves in the Whistler Mode Frequency Range' was submitted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research. This paper is in collaboration with Dr. C. W. Smith at Bartol Research Institute. In this paper, it was shown that an anisotropic electron beam (or gyrating electron beam) is capable of generating both left-hand and right-hand polarized electromagnetic waves in the whistler frequency range. Our earlier paper 'Electromagnetic Components of Auroral Hiss and Lower Hybrid Waves in the Polar Magnetosphere' was accepted for publication in the AGU Chapman Conference on Micro and Meso Scale Phenomena in Space Plasmas. Electromagnetic waves in the lower hybrid and whistler waves regime were identified and a mechanism of how these waves are generated was suggested. |
| File Size | 657617 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19940022096 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7wm66n9m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Cyclotron Radiation Hiss Electron Beams Auroras Wave Generation High Energy Electrons Relativistic Particles Frequency Ranges Magnetohydrodynamic Stability Space Plasmas Whistlers Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
