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RECENTLY it was proposed that plasma instabilities are responsible for the auroral precipitation of particles trapped inside the magnetosphere1. The entire event would be a two-step process, one which takes particles inside the magnetosphere and one which dumps the trapped particles. Responsible for the second step would be plasma micro-instabilities of the type outlined by Krall and Rosenbluth2.
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COPPI, B. Role of Plasma Instabilities in Auroral Phenomena. Nature 205, 998 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205998a0
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