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VLF emissions such as hiss, chorus, oscillating tones, hiss-triggered chorus and whistler triggered emissions have been observed at low latitude Indian stations. In this paper we present dynamic spectra of these emissions and discuss their various observed features. It is argued that most of the emissions are generated during Doppler shifted cyclotron resonance interaction between the whistler mode wave and counter streaming energetic electrons. Resonance energy of the participating electron and interaction length are evaluated to explain the generation mechanism of some of these emissions observed at Indian stations.
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Patel, R.P., Singh, R.P. VLF emissions from ionospheric/magnetospheric plasma. Pramana - J Phys 56, 605–613 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12043-001-0085-x
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