{"id":508886,"date":"2018-08-14T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3702595b9fae618a4fdf30d4d8f8fba6"},"modified":"2018-08-14T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T20:15:57","slug":"new-study-sheds-light-on-how-ultralow-frequency-radio-waves-and-plasmas-interact-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=508886","title":{"rendered":"New study sheds light on how ultralow frequency radio waves and plasmas interact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as &#8220;whistlers&#8221;\u2014very low frequency packets of radio waves that race along magnetic field lines. This first-of-its-kind study, appearing in the Physics of Plasmas, provides new insights into the nature of whistlers and space plasmas\u2014regions of energized particles trapped by Earth&#8217;s magnetic fields. These studies could one day aid in the development of practical plasma technologies with magnetic fields, including spacecraft thrusters that use charged particles as fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles present new research on a curious cosmic phenomenon known as &#8220;whistlers&#8221;&mdash;very low frequency packets of radio waves that race along magnetic field lines. This first-of-its-kind study, appearing in the Physics of Plasmas, provides new insights into the nature of whistlers and space plasmas&mdash;regions of energized particles trapped by Earth&#8217;s magnetic fields. These studies could one day aid in the development of practical plasma technologies with magnetic fields, including spacecraft thrusters that use charged particles as fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508887,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508886\/revisions\/508887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}