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Article Dans Une Revue Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies Année : 2013

Specific features of VLF wave propagation in the earth’s inner magnetosphere

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The ray trajectories of waves in the very low frequency (VLF) range in the case of nonducted propagation in the earth's inner magnetosphere are studied as functions of location of their source region, frequency, and initial angle between the vector of wave normal and intensity vector of external magnetic field. Simulation is performed on the basis of geometric ray tracing approach in multicomponent plasma. The parameters of the magnetospheric medium were calculated using a diffusion model of the concentration distribution of plasma components and the International Geomagnetic Reference Field (IGRF) model. It is shown that the magnetospheric wave reflection can occur if the lower hybrid resonance frequency is greater than its own wave frequency (omega (LHF) > omega), i.e., at the latitudes lambda a parts per thousand 50A degrees. The simulation results confirm that the quasi-longitudinal approximation cannot be used to describe the magnetospheric whistler propagation. We present simulations of propagation of chorus-type wave magnetospheric emissions that were performed using realistic wave distributions over initial parameters. In particular, we present distributions of chorus waves over directions of wave vector as functions of geomagnetic latitude; these distributions are required to study the particle scattering and acceleration processes in the radiation belts. Our results well agree with CLUSTER satellite measurements.
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insu-01258106 , version 1 (18-01-2016)

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D. I. Mendzhul, O. V. Agapitov, O. K. Cheremnykh. Specific features of VLF wave propagation in the earth’s inner magnetosphere. Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies, 2013, 29 (3), pp.107-119. ⟨10.3103/S0884591313030033⟩. ⟨insu-01258106⟩
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