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Ashour-Abdalla et al. 1980

Ashour-Abdalla, M., Leboeuf, J.N., Dawson, J.M. and Kennel, C.F. (1980). A stimulation study of cold electron heating by loss cone instabilities. Geophysical Research Letters 7: doi: 10.1029/GL007i011p00889. issn: 0094-8276.

We present results of a computer simulation study of electron cyclotron harmonic waves. We model the initial electrons velocity distribution function as a hot ring perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field and a cold Maxwellian component. We identify nonlinear cyclotron resonance as the saturation mechanism of the unstable waves and as the heating mechanism of the cold electrons.

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