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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

The influence of wave frequency variation on the anomalous cyclotron resonance $\omega=\omega_{Be}+kv_{\|}$ interaction (ACRI) of energetic electrons with a ducted finite amplitude whistler-mode wave propagating through the so-called…

plasm-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 N. S. Erokhin , N. N. Zolnikova , M. J. Rycroft , D. Nunn

We show that on electron scales a patch of the localized magnetic reconnection spreads bi-directionally in a wave like fashion when an external guide-magnetic field in the direction of the electron current is present. The spreading is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Neeraj Jain , Joerg Buechner

The interaction of dense plasmas with an intense laser under a strong external magnetic field has been investigated. When the cyclotron frequency for the ambient magnetic field is higher than the laser frequency, the laser's electromagnetic…

The diffraction of electromagnetic waves at the surface periodic structures accompanied by strong anomalous effects in different diffraction orders is considered in great detail for high-contrast interfaces. We restrict our discussion to…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-31 T. Rokhmanova , A. V. Kats

During the recovery phase of a magnetic storm, fluxes of relativistic ($>1$ MeV) electrons in the inner magnetosphere ($3\le L \le 6$) increase to beyond pre-storm levels, reaching a peak about 4 days after the initiation of the storm. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Danny Summers , Chun-yu Ma

Large amplitude whistler waves at frequencies of 0.2 to 0.4 times electron cyclotron frequency are frequently observed in the solar wind. The waves are obliquely propagating close to the resonance cone, with significant electric fields…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 C. A. Cattell , B. Short , A. W. Breneman , P. Grul

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 investigate elastic wave propagation in finitely deformed dielectric elastomers in the presence of an electrostatic field. To analyze the propagation of both longitudinal (P-) and transverse (S-) waves, we utilize compressible material…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-01 Pavel Galich , Stephan Rudykh

A dynamic diffraction theory is developed for describing electron diffraction by dielectric crystals in a strong electromagnetic field. It is shown that additional diffraction maxima arise in an electromagnetic field, their intensity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Yulian Shabolovski

The interaction between a thin foil target and a circularly polarized laser light injected along an external magnetic field is investigated numerically by particle-in-cell simulations. A standing wave appears at the front surface of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Takayoshi Sano , Shogo Isayama , Kenta Takahashi , Shuichi Matsukiyo

We use Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission data to investigate electron-scale energy transfer due to lower hybrid drift waves during magnetopause reconnection. We analyze waves observed in an electron-scale plasma mixing layer at the…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Sabrina F. Tigik , Daniel B. Graham , Yuri V. Khotyaintsev

We studied the properties and occurrence of narrow band whistler waves and their interaction with strahl electrons observed between 0.17 and 0.26 au during the first encounter of Parker Solar Probe. We observe that occurrence of whistler…

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

Chorus-like whistler-mode waves that are known to play a fundamental role in driving radiation-belt dynamics are excited on the Large Plasma Device by the injection of a helical electron beam into a cold plasma. The mode structure of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Xin An , Bart Van Compernolle , Jacob Bortnik , Richard M. Thorne , Lunjin Chen , Wen Li

Earth's bow shock is known to produce non-thermal electrons which are generally observed as a `spike' in their flux profile. Here, in this paper, we present an analysis of electron and whistler wave properties for a quasi-perpendicular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Oka , T. Terasawa , M. Fujimoto , H. Matsui , Y. Kasaba , Y. Saito , H. Kojima , H. Matsumoto , T. Mukai

Synchrotron radiation detected from relativistic astrophysical objects such as pulsar-wind nebulae and {jets from active galactic nuclei} depends on the magnetic fields and the distribution functions of energetic electrons in these systems.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 Daniel Humphrey , Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn

The resonant interaction of relativistic electrons and whistler waves is an important mechanism of electron acceleration and scattering in the Earth radiation belts and other space plasma systems. For low amplitude waves, such an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 A. V. Artemyev , A. I. Neishtadt , A. A. Vasiliev

Electron acoustic waves (EAWs), as well as electron-acoustic solitary structures, play a crucial role in thermalization and acceleration of electron populations in Earth's magnetosphere. These waves are often observed in association with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Donglai Ma , Xin An , Anton Artemyev , Jacob Bortnik , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Xiao-Jia Zhang

By employing a local two-fluid theory, we investigate an obliquely propagating electromagnetic instability in the lower hybrid frequency range driven by cross-field current or relative drifts between electrons and ions. The theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hantao Ji , Russell Kulsrud , William Fox , Masaaki Yamada