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The Kinematics of Cyclotron Emission for Quantized Electrons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

D.B. Melrose ,
R.G. Hewitt  and
A.J. Parle
D.B. Melrose
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney
R.G. Hewitt
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney
A.J. Parle
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney
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Since the work of Wu and Lee (1979) there has been renewed interest in the classical theory of electron cyclotron masers (Lee and Wu 1980, Lee et al. 1980, Wu et al. 1981, 1982, Hewitt et al. 1981, 1982, Melrose et al. 1982, Omidi and Gurnett 1982, Melrose and Dulk 1982). A useful idea in these recent developments of the classical theory concerns a geometric interpretation of the classical gyroresonance condition

where Ωe, is the nonrelativistic gyrofrequency, s = 0, ± 1, ± 2,… is the harmonic number, is the Lorentz factor and ║ and ┴ denote components parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. In v┴ − v║ space (1) represents an ellipse with centre v║ = vc, v┴ = 0, eccentricity e0 and semi-major axis V parallel to the v┴ axis, with

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , 1982 , pp. 359 - 362
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1982

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