COHERENT GENERATION OF THE AURORAL KILOMETRIC RADIATION BY NON-LINEAR BEATINGS BETWEEN ELECTROSTATIC-WAVES

被引:47
作者
ROUX, A [1 ]
PELLAT, R [1 ]
机构
[1] ECOLE POLYTECH,CTR PHYS THEOR,F-91128 PALAISEAU,FRANCE
来源
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS | 1979年 / 84卷 / NA9期
关键词
481 Geology and Geophysics - 657 Space Physics - 932 High Energy Physics; Nuclear Physics; Plasma Physics;
D O I
10.1029/JA084iA09p05189
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The propagation of electrostatic plasma waves in an inhomogeneous and magnetized plasma is studied analytically. These waves, which are driven unstable by auroral beams of electrons, are shown to suffer a further geometrical amplification while they propagate toward cut-off. Simultaneously their group velocities tend to be aligned with the geomagnetic field. Then it is shown that the electrostatic energy tends to accumulate at or near omega //L//H and omega //U//H, the local lower and upper hybrid frequencies. Due to this process, large amplitude electrostatic waves with very narrow spectra should be observed near these frequencies at any place along the auroral field lines where intense beam driven instability takes place. These intense quasi-monochromatic electrostatic waves are then shown to give rise by a coherent nonlinear three wave process to an intense electromagnetic radiation. Provided that the ratio omega //p//e/ omega //c//e tends to be smaller than unit, it is shown that the most intense radiation should be observed at 2 omega //U//H in the extraordinary mode.
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页码:5189 / 5198
页数:10
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