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Modified electron whistler dispersion law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2002

B. V. LUNDIN  and
C. KRAFFT
B. V. LUNDIN
Affiliation:
Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region, 142190, Russia
C. KRAFFT
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Abstract

A modified electron whistler dispersion law is derived in the cold-plasma approximation for analytical treatment and simplified numerical calculations of wave propagation in a wide range of ratios ωc/ωp of electron gyro- to plasma frequencies if the wave frequency is much less than ωp. The net contribution of ions to the wave dispersion law is expressed through the value of the lower-hybrid resonance frequency ωlhr only. This approximate dispersion law is valid in a wide frequency domain, that is, from the range of ωlhr until the domain where the contribution of ions can be neglected. A comparison of geometrical-optics ray trajectories calculated by the use of modified and total cold-plasma electron whistler dispersion laws is presented for the case of the Earth's plasma environment. Computer simulations of dynamical spectra of whistler waves excited by lightning discharges and registered in remote regions of the Earth's plasmasphere reveal good numerical stability of the developed ray-tracing code.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 67 , Issue 2-3 , April 2002 , pp. 149 - 161
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

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