A laboratory experiment to investigate auroral kilometric radiation emission mechanisms

D C  Speirs; I  Vorgul; K  Ronald; R  Bingham; R A  Cairns; A D R  Phelps; B J  Kellett; A W  Cross; C G  Whyte; C  Robertson

doi:10.1017/S0022377804003459

A laboratory experiment to investigate auroral kilometric radiation emission mechanisms

D C Speirs, I Vorgul, K Ronald, R Bingham, R A Cairns, A D R Phelps, B J Kellett, A W Cross, C G Whyte, C Robertson

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If an initially mainly rectilinear electron beam is subject to significant magnetic compression, the conservation of the magnetic moment results In the ultimate formation of a horseshoe distribution in phase space. A similar situation occurs where particles are accelerated into the auroral region of the Earth's magnetic dipole. Such a distribution has been shown to be unstable to a cyclotron resonance maser type of instability and it has been postulated that this may be the mechanism required to explain the production in these regions of auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) and also possibly radiation from other astrophysical objects such as stars with a suitable magnetic field configuration. In this paper we describe a laboratory experiment to investigate the evolution of an electron beam subject to a, magnetic compression of up to a factor of 30.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	665-674
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Plasma Physics
Volume	71
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022377804003459
Publication status	Published - Oct 2005

Keywords

CYCLOTRON MASER RADIATION
PARTICLE-ACCELERATION
DISTRIBUTIONS

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