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Regimes of Resonant Interactions of Electrons with Auroral Kilometric Radiation

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We analyze the resonant interaction of energetic electrons with auroral kilometric radiation (AKR). Possible regimes of such an interaction are studied on the basis of a numerical solution of the particle motion equations in a given field of a quasi-monochromatic AKR wave packet. It is shown that for realistic wave amplitudes 0.2–0.4 V/m, the interaction can be highly nonlinear. As a result of nonlinear interaction, both a substantial (approximately twofold) acceleration of particles and a decrease in their energy (by about 20–50%) are possible. With realistic plasma and wave packet parameters, electrons with initial energies of the order of 10 keV are accelerated, and for electrons with initial energies of several tens of keV, the interaction leads to a decrease in energy.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 173–194, March 2020.

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Grach, V.S., Demekhov, A. Regimes of Resonant Interactions of Electrons with Auroral Kilometric Radiation. Radiophys Quantum El 63, 157–176 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-021-10043-5

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