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Effects of Heavy Ions on Microscopic Plasma Physics in the Magnetosphere

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Book cover High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics

Part of the book series: Nobel Foundation Symposia Published by Plenum ((NOFS,volume 54))

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Since they can be used as tracers of solar wind — magnetosphere-ionosphere exchanges, more emphasis has been put recently on heavy ions and on the role which they can play in magnetospheric processes. Among those, processes involving wave-particle interactions (WPI) between hot anisotropic protons and ion-cyclotron waves (ICW) have been the most documented, thanks to the European geostationary satellites GEOS. The modifications induced by the presence of cold He+ ions of ionospheric origin in the propagation and generation properties of ICW’s are discussed. It is also shown that these He+ ions can be trapped and heated through quasi-linear diffusion and that nonlinear trapping of cold electrons, which would not be possible in the absence of He+ ions, may lead to the generation of a new class of wave phenomena.

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Gendrin, R. (1983). Effects of Heavy Ions on Microscopic Plasma Physics in the Magnetosphere. In: Hultqvist, B., Hagfors, T. (eds) High-Latitude Space Plasma Physics. Nobel Foundation Symposia Published by Plenum, vol 54. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3652-5_22

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