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Our concern here is to present the idea of the ion cyclotron resonator in the planetary magnetosphere and to discuss briefly the experimental status of the corresponding theory. The resonator confines the ion cyclotron waves to a thin equatorial zone, so that it keeps the wave field from coming into contact with the ionosphere, resulting in a decrease in energy losses. The properties of the resonator are illustrated by adopting a plausible distribution of the magnetic field in the equatorial zone, which yields an expression for the discrete spectrum of the waves just above the gyrofrequency of heavy ions. We show that the resonator is remarkable for many reasons, including the frequency dependence of its size and specific structure of the spectrum.
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From Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 72, No. 6, 2000, pp. 432–435.
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Guglielmi, A.V., Potapov, A.S. & Russell, C.T. The ion cyclotron resonator in the magnetosphere. Jetp Lett. 72, 298–300 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1328441
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