The stimulated plasma wave experiment (SPW) has been successfully carried out in the plasmasphere and the magnetosphere along the JIKIKEN (EXOS-B) satellite orbit where the plasma parameters indicate wide variety of the combination of the electron number density ranging from 1/cc to 10
4/cc, and the electron cyclotron frequency ranging from 6kHz to 200kHz.
The observed plasma resonances are: i) the upper hybrid resonance
FUHR, ii) the plasma resonance
FP, iii) the higher harmonics of the electron cyclotron resonance
nFH, iv) the electrostatic resonance
FQn, and v) the sequence of the diffuse resonance
FDn. The upper hybrid resonances usually persists for long periods up to 125 msec and the electron cyclotron resonances are stimulated at frequency with the very high harmonic number
n; sometimes, the
nFH resonance takes place for
n≥30.
The detection of the plasma resonance
FP is more difficult compared with the case of the observation of the
FUHR resonance due to the expanded wavelength of the electrostatic plasma waves near at
FP. The observation of the diffuse resonances is the most difficult case in the magnetosphere since the energy of the plasma in the magnetosphere overcomes the electric field intensity generated by the SPW pulse transmission. All the features of the resonances reflect the characteristics of the magnetospheric plasma that contains the energetic and non-Maxwellian components of the particles. The measurement of the plasma resonance contributes to the detection of the local electron density, magnetic field intensity; conditions for the wave particle interactions are also analyzed from the duration features of the plasma resonances.
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