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The intensity of the wave emission in the 0.1–10 MHz band measured in the ionosphere (the APEX satellite experiment) has been presented. A jump of the plasma density and an increase in the emission intensity at a plasma frequency have been registered at altitudes of ∼1300 km in the topside auroral ionosphere. The emission intensity in the whistler-mode band nonmonotonically increased along the satellite trajectory near the plasma jump wall. It has been indicated that waveguides could be formed near the wall during damping of electrostatic oscillations generated by precipitating electron fluxes. A spatially nonmonotonous separation of waveguides from the plasma inhomogeneity stretched along geomagnetic field lines is possible in this case.
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Original Russian Text © N.I. Izhovkina, I.S. Prutensky, S.A. Pulinets, Z. Klos, H. Rothkaehl, 2007, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 780–791.
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Izhovkina, N.I., Prutensky, I.S., Pulinets, S.A. et al. Wave emission during a plasma density jump in the auroral zone of the topside ionosphere according to the APEX satellite data. Geomagn. Aeron. 47, 739–749 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793207060060
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