EVIDENCE OF A TRANSVERSE LANGMUIR MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY IN A SPACE PLASMA

Academic Article

Abstract

  • Electric field amplitude modulations of Langmuir waves were observed in the auroral ionosphere. The data are consistent with a transverse modulational instability resonant with lower hybrid or ion Bernstein waves. The envelopes appear to have been nearly saturated.
  • Authors

  • ERGUN, RE
  • CARLSON, CW
  • MCFADDEN, JP
  • Clemmons, James
  • BOEHM, MH
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • July 1991
  • Published In

    Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 1177
  • End Page

  • 1180
  • Volume

  • 18
  • Issue

  • 7