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A theory of the terrestrial kilometric radiation

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In this paper, it was found that reflected electrons can result in the amplification of electromagnetic waves via a relativistic normal cyclotron resonance, which may explain the recently discovered terrestrial kilometric radiation.
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During magnetospheric substorms, electrons with energies of about 1 keV are injected from the plasma-sheet region into the auroral region. A fraction of these energetic electrons can precipitate into the upper atmosphere, and the rest are reflected because of the mirror effect of the convergent geomagnetic field. It is found that these reflected electrons can result in the amplification of electromagnetic waves via a relativistic normal cyclotron resonance. This process may explain the recently discovered terrestrial kilometric radiation.

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