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DATA from ground based and satellite observations have confirmed the occurrence of quasi-period very low-frequency (VLF) whistler-mode signals in the Earth's magnetosphere1 and the solar wind2. I report here that new regions of modulational instability could cause whistler wave modulation in the magnetosphere. I also indicate the importance of whistler modulation instability in other astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.
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SHUKLA, P. Modulational instability of whistler-mode signals. Nature 274, 874–875 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274874a0
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