Properties of obliquely propagating chorus

dc.contributor.author	Verkhoglyadova, Olga P.
dc.contributor.author	Tsurutani, B.T.
dc.contributor.author	Lakhina, G.S.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-02T06:56:27Z
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-12T09:42:12Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-02T06:56:27Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-12T09:42:12Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	JGR-Space Physics, v.115/A9, 2010, doi: 10.1029/2009JA014809	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/900
dc.description.abstract	We discuss chorus wave magnetic and electric field polarizations as functions on angle of propagation relative to the ambient magnetic field B0. For the first time, it is shown using a cold plasma approximation that the general whistler wave has circularly polarized magnetic fields for oblique propagation. This theoretical result is verified by observations. The electric field polarization plane is not orthogonal to the wave vector k and is in general highly elliptically polarized. Both the magnetic and the electric polarizations have important consequences for cyclotron resonant electron pitch angle scattering and for electron energization, respectively. A special case of the whistler wave called the Gendrin mode is discussed.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	Chorus wave	en_US
dc.subject	Electric field	en_US
dc.subject	Whistler wave	en_US
dc.title	Properties of obliquely propagating chorus	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.identifier.accession	091218