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Quasi-periodic whistler mode emission in the plasmasphere as observed by the DSX spacecraft

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Farrell, William M.
Lauben, David S.
Miller, Joanna A.
Linscott, Ivan R.
Galkin, Ilya
Su, Yi-Jiun
Johnston, W. Robert
Starks, Michael J.
Sanchez, Jenny C.
Ginet, Gregory P.

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We describe the quasi-periodic (QP) whistler-mode emissions found in the plasmasphere as detected by electric and magnetic instrumentation onboard the Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) spacecraft in medium Earth orbit. Over the course of the nearly 2-year mission, at least 45 episodes of whistler mode QP emissions were detected by the Broad Band Receiver (BBR) onboard DSX. Episodes of QP emissions were identified by discrete events having a clear unambiguous periodic nature as detected by both the electric antennae and search coil magnetic sensors in the BBR survey data at 30 s temporal resolution. Most of the QP episodes occurred in a frequency range between 1 and 4 kHz, in a band previously identified by Van Allen Probes and Cluster investigators. However, episodes were also detected by DSX at higher frequencies - events in these episodes extending all the way to 15 kHz. We present our findings on these unusual high frequency events in the presentation herein. Specifically, these high frequency QP episodes tended to be observed near dawn/dusk when the spacecraft was at relatively high magnetic latitudes and on magnetic L-shells between 3 and 5. Another unusual feature of these episodes is that individual up-drifting events making up the episode were found to sometimes occur concurrently in time: The high frequency portion of one up-drifting ""polliwog-shaped"" event overlapped in time with the low frequency portion of the subsequent event. This behavior of the QP emissions has not been previously emphasized and we consider how this temporal concurrence relates to the source processes.

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Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

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American Geophysical Union (AGU)

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Astronomy and astrophysics

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