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Whistler instability in a magnetospheric duct

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

I. Talukdar
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110016, India
V. K. Tripathi
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi 110016, India
V. K. Jain
Affiliation:
Physics Group, School of Environmental Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India

Abstract

A whistler wave propagating through a preformed magnetospheric duct is susceptible to growth/amplification by an electron beam. The interaction is non-local and could be of Čerenkov or slow-cyclotron type. First-order perturbation theory is employed to obtain the growth rate for flat and Gaussian beam densities.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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