Large-amplitude (10 to 100 μV m−1 Hz−½) natural radio emissions in a wide frequency range (100 kHz up to 2 MHz) are frequently observed on board the AUREOL/ARCAD 3 satellite at high latitude and at altitudes between 400 and 2000 km. The simultaneous measurement of the local cold plasma density allows the identification of cutoff and resonance frequencies. Three different kinds of wave are observed: (1) electrostatic emissions near the local value of the plasma frequency (fp), (2) electromagnetic whistler mode emissions, sometimes associated with type (1) emissions, and (3) electromagnetic Z mode emissions, also associated with type 1 emissions, but occurring more rarely than the whistler mode emissions and then only when fp is greater than the electron cyclotron frequency (fce). These emissions are always associated with high levels of ELF electrostatic turbulence and a high flux of low-energy precipitating electrons, extending in energy down to the lower limit of the detectors (∼100 eV). The statistical distribution of the emissions in geomagnetic coordinates shows an occurrence greater than 80% in the polar cusp region and between 25% and 60% in the nightside auroral zone. A generation mechanism for such emissions is proposed, based on the calculation of the growth rate of the kinetic Cherenkov instability, associated with a beamlike suprathermal tail in the parallel distribution of the bulk electron population. In particular, suprathermal, downward electron beams of about 100–200 eV energy, with a thermal spread of the same order, are found to be responsible for the generation of whistler mode and Z mode HF emissions in a source region extending down to 1000 km of altitude. It is suggested that such intense radio emissions should be considered as one of the energy dissipation processes resulting from magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, through interdependent electrodynamic mechanisms such as current systems, parallel anomalous resistivity, plasma turbulence, energy diffusion, and heating.

Electrostatic plasma waves and HF auroral hiss generated at low altitude

: During the shuttle's Spacelab-2 mission, the Plasma Diagnostics Package (PDP) was released from the shuttle to freefly. At times during this freeflight when the PDP was magnetically connected to the shuttle, the Fast Pulsed Electron Generator (FPEG), located in the shuttle cargo bay, ejected a 1 keV - 50 mA electron beam. The plasma wave instrument on board the PDP detected intense whistler mode radiation during these beam ejections. This paper presents a study of a whistler mode emission detected during one particular continuous electron beam firing. Calculations indicate that the beam radiated approximately 1.6 mW in the whistler mode as the beam transversed the 200 meters from the shuttle to the PDP. The emissivity also decreased by about a factor of 10 over this same distance. The measured wave powers are 10 to the 7th power greater than wave powers expected from incoherent Cerenkov radiation, verifying that the radiation is generated by a coherent process. Estimates of the emissivity based on measured electric field intensities in the beam indicate that the whistler mode noise is produced by radiation from electron bunches created by an electrostatic beam plasma instability.

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An Analysis of Whistler-Mode Radiation from the Spacelab-2 Electron Beam. Revision.

During the Spacelab 2 mission the plasma diagnostics package (PDP) was released from the Shuttle to free fly. At times during this free flight, when the PDP was magnetically connected to the Shuttle, Stanford's fast-pulsed electron generator, located in the Shuttle cargo bay, ejected a 1-keV 50-mA electron beam. The PDP plasma-wave instrument detected intense whistler-mode radiation during these beam ejections. This paper presents a study of a whistler mode emission detected during one particular continuous electron beam firing. Calculations indicate that the beam radiated approximately 1.6 mW in the whistler mode as the beam traversed the 200 m from the Shuttle to the PDP. The emissivity also decreased by about a factor of 10 over this same distance. The measured wave powers are 10 to the 7th greater than wave powers expected from incoherent Cerenkov radiation, verifying that the radiation is generated by a coherent process. Estimates of the emissivity based on measured electric field intensities in the beam indicate that the whistler-mode noise is produced by radiation from electron bunches created by an electrostatic beam-plasma instability.

An analysis of whistler mode radiation from the Spacelab 2 electron beam

The plasma environment of the Spacelab 2 mission was investigated through the deployment of the Plasma Diagnostics Package (PDP) by the Space Shuttle Orbiter and the Orbiter's ejection of a continuous 1-keV/50-mA electron beam along a field line. As the PDP flew by the beam, its plasma-wave instrument detected intense whistler-mode radiation originating from the beam. A detailed model has been developed of the coherent Cerenkov emission process, using a one-dimensional computer simulation of the beam to model the expected phase space structure of the electrons. The power calculated for the modeled 200-m beam segment can easily account for the measured whistler mode wave power.

Coherent Cerenkov radiation from the Spacelab 2 electron beam

Observations from the SEPAC (Space Experiments with Particle Accelerators) experiment on Spacelab 1 Shuttle mission of waves generated during electron beam emissions are presented. The dependence of the wave intensity on the beam parameters and the Shuttle attitude is outlined, and the shape of the wave spectra are discussed. It is found that the noise in the 0.75- to 10 kHz band has a spectral shape that can be characterized by an f exp -n law, and that the VLF signal level depends on the beam angle to the magnetic field, the strongest emissions being observed for parallel beams. These features are found to be consistent with a drift wave instability.

Waves generated during electron beam emissions from the space shuttle

The effects of electron beam emissions from Spacelab were recorded with onboard diagnostic instruments. The variation of the Spacelab-shuttle potential with respect to the ambient plasma near the scientific air lock was investigated. Data on the waves and instabilities triggered by the electron beams are discussed. Within the electron gyrofrequency and electron plasma frequency range, strong signals were detected by both electric and magnetic antennas during the beam emissions. The frequencies of the emitted waves were compared to the characteristic plasma frequencies to enable mode identification.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/225/4658/188.full.pdf

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Phenomena Induced by Charged Particle Beams

Plasma energization in the shuttle wake region during beam injection from Spacelab 1