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A method for the estimation of electron density from the ratio of the wave magnetic and electric field amplitude of whistler waves is developed. Near the geomagnetic equator, whistler wave normals are mainly close to the direction of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-06-02 Vitlii Shastun , Oleksiy Agapitov

Whistler waves are thought to play an essential role in the dynamics of collisionless shocks. We use the magnetospheric multiscale (MMS) spacecraft to study whistler waves around the lower hybrid frequency, upstream of 11…

The origins and properties of large amplitude whistler wave packets in the solar wind are still unclear. In this Letter we utilise single spacecraft electric and magnetic field waveform measurements from the ARTEMIS mission to calculate the…

Space Physics · Physics 2016-09-23 D. Stansby , T. S. Horbury , C. H. K. Chen , L. Matteini

Earth's magnetosphere hosts a wide range of collisionless particle populations that interact through various wave-particle processes. Among these, cold electrons, with energies below 100eV, often dominate the plasma density but remain…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Opal Issan , Vadim Roytershteyn , Gian Luca Delzanno , Salomon Janhunen

Whistler waves are present in solar wind plasma. These waves possess characteristic turbulent fluctuations that are characterized typically by the frequency and length scales that are respectively bigger than ion gyro frequency and smaller…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

We present waveform observations of electromagnetic lower hybrid and whistler waves with f_ci << f < f_ce downstream of four supercritical interplanetary (IP) shocks using the Wind search coil magnetometer. The whistler waves were observed…

Nonlinear three dimensional, time dependent, fluid simulations of whistler wave turbulence are performed to investigate role of whistler waves in solar wind plasma turbulence in which characteristic turbulent fluctuations are characterized…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh

Whistler waves propagating nearly parallel to the ambient magnetic field experience a nonlinear instability that generates oblique electrostatic waves, including whistlers near the resonance cone that resemble oblique chorus in the Earth's…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Vadim Roytershteyn , Gian Luca Delzanno , Justin C. Holmes

It is shown that the dispersion relation for whistler waves is identical for a high or low beta plasma. Furthermore in the high-beta solar wind plasma whistler waves meet the Landau resonance with electrons for velocities less than the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Manish Mithaiwala , Leonid Rudakov , Chris Crabtree , Gurudas Ganguli

We present a statistical study of the characteristics of very large amplitude whistler waves inside the terrestrial magnetosphere using waveform capture data from the Wind spacecraft as an addition of the study by Kellogg et al., [2010b].…

Space Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 L. B. Wilson , C. A. Cattell , P. J. Kellogg , J. R. Wygant , K. Goetz , A. Breneman , K. Kersten

Radiation of short-wavelength plasma waves is studied in a cold (Te=0.5eV), large (1.2m length, 70 cm diameter), uniform, Maxwellian laboratory magnetoplasma in the upper-hybrid frequency range. Although the characteristic parameter of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail V. Starodubtsev , Alexander V. Kostrov

Electromagnetic modes in the frequency range of 30-120MHz were observed in electron cyclotron wave (ECW) steady state plasmas on the ENN XuanLong-50 (EXL-50) spherical torus. These modes were found to have multiple bands of frequencies…

Electron resonant scattering by high-frequency electromagnetic whistler-mode waves has been proposed as a mechanism for solar wind electron scattering and pre-acceleration to energies that enable them to participate in shock drift…

The nonlinear propagation of electromagnetic (EM) electron-cyclotron waves (whistlers) along an external magnetic field, and their modulation by electrostatic small but finite amplitude ion-acoustic density perturbations are investigated in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 A. P. Misra , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla

Electromagnetic whistler-mode waves are a natural emission in the outer radiation belt and the Earth's magnetotail. The resonant interaction of these waves and energetic electrons are responsible for electron acceleration and losses, thus…

Particle-in-cell code, EPOCH, is used for studying features of the wave component evident to propagate backwards from the front of the non-gyrotropic, relativistic beam of electrons injected in the Maxwellian, magnetised background plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-28 Marina Skender , David Tsiklauri

Whistler waves are intermittently present in the solar wind, while their origin and effects are not entirely understood. We present a statistical analysis of magnetic field fluctuations in the whistler frequency range (above 16 Hz) based on…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Yuguang Tong , Ivan Y. Vasko , Anton V. Artemyev , Stuart D. Bale , Forrest S. Mozer

The evolution of the solar wind electron distribution function with heliocentric distance exhibits different features that are still unexplained, in particular, the increase of the Strahl pitch angle width. Wave-particle interactions…

We investigate the attenuation of whistler waves generated by hypotetical venusian lightning occurring at the altitude of the cloud layer under different ionospheric conditions. We use the Stanford Full Wave Method (FWM) for stratified…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 F. J. Pérez-Invernón , N. G. Lehtinen , F. J. Gordillo-Vázquez , A. Luque

We review the modulation stability of parallel propagating/field aligned Whistler Mode Chorus waves propagating in a warm plasma from a formal perspective with a focus on wave-particle interactions. The modulation instability criteria is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Daniel Ratliff , Oliver Allanson
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