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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 293-299Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058889
Keywords
whistler mode chorus; waveform measurements; nonlinear phenomena
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- JHU/APL contract under NASA [921647, NAS5-01072]
- GACR [205-10-2279, LH11122]
- EU [284520]
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Whistler mode chorus waves in the outer Van Allen belt can have consequences for acceleration of relativistic electrons through wave-particle interactions. New multicomponent waveform measurements have been collected by the Van Allen Probes Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science's Waves instrument. We detect fine structure of chorus elements with peak instantaneous amplitudes of a few hundred picotesla but exceptionally reaching up to 3 nT, i.e., more than 1% of the background magnetic field. The wave vector direction turns by a few tens of degrees within a single chorus element but also within its subpackets. Our analysis of a significant number of subpackets embedded in rising frequency elements shows that amplitudes of their peaks tend to decrease with frequency. The wave vector is quasi-parallel to the background magnetic field for large-amplitude subpackets, while it turns away from this direction when the amplitudes are weaker.
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