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VLF Emissions: Summary Report
Author(s) -
Kimura I.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs007i008p00831
Subject(s) - whistler , magnetosphere , physics , computational physics , plasmasphere , rocket (weapon) , noise (video) , van allen radiation belt , electron , plasma , instability , flux (metallurgy) , nuclear physics , aerospace engineering , materials science , artificial intelligence , computer science , mechanics , engineering , metallurgy , image (mathematics)
In addition to a review on whistler mode propagation and VLF emissions, the introductory talk by M. J. Rycroft (University of Southampton, England) covered several recent topics, three of which were mostly discussed: (a) recent results of a ray tracing to be compared with Walter and Angerami's [1969] and Scarabucci's [1970] computations, (b) effect of thermal anisotropy on the real part of the refractive index, hence on raytracing, especially in plasmas with β = 1, (c) simultaneous rocket observation of electron flux (energies higher than 45 kev) and whistler‐mode noise intensity. The rest of this session was mainly devoted to generation mechanisms of VLF emissions; a few other topics such as an electrostatic instability in the magnetosphere were also included.