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Unified View of Nonlinear Wave Structures Associated with Whistler-Mode Chorus
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Unified View of Nonlinear Wave Structures Associated with Whistler-Mode Chorus

Xin An, Jinxing Li, Jacob Bortnik, Viktor Decyk, Craig Kletzing and George Hospodarsky
Physical review letters, Vol.122(4), pp.045101-045101
02/01/2019
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.045101
PMID: 30768310
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.00953View
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Abstract

A range of nonlinear wave structures, including Langmuir waves, unipolar electric fields, and bipolar electric fields, are often observed in association with whistler-mode chorus waves in near-Earth space. We demonstrate that the three seemingly different nonlinear wave structures originate from the same nonlinear electron trapping process by whistler-mode chorus waves. The ratio of the Landau resonant velocity to the electron thermal velocity controls the type of nonlinear wave structures that will be generated.

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