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 | | These sounders also generate electrostatic waves that produce coherent echoes (called plasma resonances because of their appearance on the data records) that occur near harmonics of the electron cyclotron frequency fce, the electron plasma frequency fpe, and the upper-hybrid frequency fuh, where fuh2 = fpe2 + fce2. |
 | | One, based on eigenmodes of cylindrical electromagnetic plasma oscillations [1], predicts the observed frequency spacing of the observed Dn sequence and also that these resonances would be expected in any magnetized plasma where fpe and fce are comparable [2]. |
 | | The main challenge remaining is to derive this fundamental frequency, i.e., for n = 1 which is most prominently observed when fpe/fce » 2 - 4, from kinetic theory (analytically or by numerical simulations) and verify using laboratory experiments. |
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