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VLF emission stimulated by parallel electric fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

B. Juhl  and
R. A. Treumann
B. Juhl
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, D-8046 Garching, FRG
R. A. Treumann
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik, Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, D-8046 Garching, FRG
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Abstract

We study the influence of a weak quasi-static parallel electric field on the stability of electromagnetic plasma waves. Using an operator calculus to solve the Boltzmann-Maxwell equations we derive a dispersion relation for the electromagnetic waves. Assuming that the electrons have a loss-cone distribution, the real frequency of waves in the whistler band is not changed by the presence of the electric field. Resonant interaction damps the HF waves for propagation parallel to the electric field. In the case of opposite propagation, a new HF excitation is found at frequencies ω ≲ ωce The width of the excitation region depends on the width of the loss cone, field strength and collision frequency. This result is applied to observations of the splitting of VLF emissions under natural conditions in the magnetosphere. It is found that the observed splitting could have been caused by the presence of the weak parallel electric field of a kinetic (shear) Alfvén wave in the emission region, which is quasi-stationary compared with the growth of the observed VLF emission.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , August 1985 , pp. 47 - 66
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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