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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053206
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- NASA [NNX11AD75G, NNX11AR64G, NNX08AI35G, NAS5-02099]
- NSF grant [AGS-0840178]
- German Ministry for Economy and Technology
- German Center for Aviation and Space (DLR) [50 OC 0302]
- NASA [100787, NNX08AI35G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
- Directorate For Geosciences [0903802] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [0903802] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The characteristics of hiss-like and discrete (rising and falling tones) whistler-mode waves in the lower-band wave frequency range (0.1-0.5 of equatorial electron gyrofrequency) are investigated using waveform data from near-equatorially orbiting multiple THEMIS spacecraft outside the plasmasphere. Statistical results show that wave polarization properties of hiss-like emissions are similar to rising tones, but are significantly different from falling tones. The magnetic wave amplitudes of hiss-like bands and rising tones are generally larger than those of falling tones. Wave normal angles of broadband hiss-like emissions and rising tones tend to be quasi field-aligned, whereas falling tones are very oblique. Importantly, discrete emissions including rising and falling tones are predominantly observed in the region of low f(pe)/f(ce) (the ratio of plasma frequency to electron gyrofrequency), whereas hiss-like bands alone preferentially occur in the region of high f(pe)/f(ce). These important features of hiss-like and discrete whistler-mode emissions should be considered when evaluating their interactions with energetic electrons. Citation: Li, W., R. M. Thorne, J. Bortnik, X. Tao, and V. Angelopoulos (2012), Characteristics of hiss-like and discrete whistler-mode emissions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L18106, doi: 10.1029/2012GL053206.
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