Continuum: Previous Results
Key observations of the Earthís non-thermal continuum:
- Contains both 'trapped' and 'escaping' components
- Source region is at low latitude on the morning side near the plasmaspause
- Believed to be generated when Fuhr = (n+1/2)Fg
Escaping continuum:
- Frequency range: ~35 to ~ 100 kHz
- Seen both inside and outside the magnetosphere
- Observed as narrow ìdiscreteî frequency bands
Trapped Continuum:
- Frequency range:~ 15 kHz to ~ 35 kHz
- Believe to occur due to Doppler shifting of multiple reflections off the magnetopause and plasmapause of the ìdiscreteî emission
- Upper frequencyred to be only a 'broad-band' emission
- Because observations were at low latitudes, previously believed by some to completely fill the magnetosphere