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Excitation of Chirping Whistler Waves in a Laboratory Plasma

Bortnik, J.; Thorne, R. M.; Van Compernolle, B. +3 more

Whistler mode chorus emissions with a characteristic frequency chirp are important magnetospheric waves, responsible for the acceleration of outer radiation belt electrons to relativistic energies and also for the scattering loss of these electrons into the atmosphere. Here, we report on the first laboratory experiment where whistler waves exhibit…