Explanation for the simultaneous occurrence of bipolar structures and waves near ion-cyclotron harmonics in the auroral ionosphere

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 3059-3062

  Crary, F J ^a   Goldman, M V ^a   Ergun, R E ^a   Newman, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTROSTATICS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IONS; CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRON INSTABILITY; PARTICLE-IN-CELL (PIC) SIMULATIONS;

IONOSPHERE; IONS;

IONOSPHERE;

AURORAL IONOSPHERE; BIPOLAR STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON INSTABILITY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; ION BERNSTEIN WAVE; ION-CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY; PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS;

EID: 0035419457     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013050     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. The Fast Auroral SnapshoT (FAST) mission
2. FAST observations in the downward auroral current region: Energetic upgoing electron beams, parallel potential drops, and ion heating
3. FAST satellite observations of electric field structures in the auroral zone
4. Debye-scale plasma structures associated with magnetic-field-aligned electric fields
5. Multiscale coherent structures and broadband waves due to parallel inhomogeneous flows
6. Nonlinear two-stream instabilities as an explanation for auroral bipolar structures
7. Turbulence driven by two-stream instabilities in a magnetized plasma
8. Topside current instabilities
9. Phase-space electron holes along magnetic field lines
10. Instability of phase-space tubes
11. Dynamics and instability of electron phase-space tubes
12. Evolution of electron phase-space holes in a 2D magnetized plasma
13. Evolution of electron phase-space holes in 3-D