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Electrostatic ion cyclotron waves have been observed in the auroral flux tube near 1-RE altitude. Two possible mechanisms have been discussed in the literature, one is due to the upstreaming ions with energies about 1 KeV and the other is caused by the downstreaming electrons. Detailed study which is presented by Kintner et al.1 shows numerous uncertaintiers. Particularly, these mechanisms cannot explain the highly coherent component of the ion cyclotron waves observed by the S3-3 satellite.2
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P.M. Kintner, et al., J. Geophys. Res. 84, 7201 (1979).
M. Temerin, et al, EOS Trans. AGU, 59, 1155 (1978).
R. F. Benson and W. Calvert, Geophys. Res. Lett. 6, 479 (1979).
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Wu, C.S. (1981). Mechanisms for the Excitation of Ion Cyclotron Waves in Auroral Acceleration Region. In: Kikuchi, H. (eds) Relation Between Laboratory and Space Plasmas. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8440-0_14
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