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Appendix A: Doppler Effect on the Antenna Response to Bernstein Waves

To compute the Doppler effect on the voltage power spectrum seen by the antenna, we have to substitute in (1) the electric field tex2html_wrap_inline1728 with tex2html_wrap_inline1730 , where tex2html_wrap_inline1732 is the relative velocity of the antenna with respect to the ambient plasma.

Since tex2html_wrap_inline1202 is roughly perpendicular to tex2html_wrap_inline1732 and the angle between the spin plane of the antenna and the plane defined by tex2html_wrap_inline1738 remains small ( tex2html_wrap_inline1740 ), we may write tex2html_wrap_inline1742 . The solution tex2html_wrap_inline1744 of the dispersion equation in the presence of the relative velocity will thus be modified from the nonshifted solution tex2html_wrap_inline1746 , as tex2html_wrap_inline1748 with tex2html_wrap_inline1750 , which reads

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where we have set tex2html_wrap_inline1752 . Now if we replace tex2html_wrap_inline1746 in (1) with tex2html_wrap_inline1744 , we obtain a Doppler-corrected antenna response function:

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We may remark that tex2html_wrap_inline1758 is an even function of tex2html_wrap_inline1760 with tex2html_wrap_inline1762 , so that tex2html_wrap_inline1764 . However, this factor tex2html_wrap_inline1760 could take values close to 1, especially near the gyroharmonics where tex2html_wrap_inline1768 , and so we have numerically studied the variation of the function tex2html_wrap_inline1758 with the variations of the plasma parameters involved in (A2).
During the IPT crossing, at a Jovicentric distance of about 8 tex2html_wrap_inline1200 , V is nearly the corotation velocity [Stone et al., 1992b], which increases with the Jovicentric distance tex2html_wrap_inline1200 from tex2html_wrap_inline1778 to tex2html_wrap_inline1780 km/s and the temperature from tex2html_wrap_inline1782 near the torus equator to tex2html_wrap_inline1784 at highest latitudes. These variations lead to a parameter a such that 0.05<a<0.1, and the derivative tex2html_wrap_inline1788 can be computed using (B3). This derivative depends on the gyroradius, that is, on both the temperature and the gyrofrequency tex2html_wrap_inline1790 which decreases with tex2html_wrap_inline1200 from tex2html_wrap_inline1794 to tex2html_wrap_inline1796 kHz. All these variations cannot be easily summarized and have to be computed for each spectrum. The result is that the difference between the Doppler-affected modulation tex2html_wrap_inline1798 and the modulation given by (2) does not exceed in any cases tex2html_wrap_inline1136 for tex2html_wrap_inline1802 We show in Figure A1 a typical sample of the antenna response with Doppler effect computed from (A2), with a= 0.06 and tex2html_wrap_inline1806 .

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Figure A1: (top) Antenna response to Bernstein waves with Doppler effect and (bottom) the difference with the antenna response without Doppler effect shown in Figure 3 as a function of kL and the angle tex2html_wrap_inline1096 between the antenna and the magnetic field (in radians).


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Michel Moncuquet
Tue Nov 18 19:18:28 MET 1997