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The Ulysses Unified Radio and Plasma Wave Experiment (URAP) has observed Langmuir, ion-acoustic and associated solar type III radio emissions in the interplanetary medium. Bursts of 50–300 Hz (in the spacecraft frame) electric field signals, corresponding to long-wavelength ion-acoustic waves are often observed coincident in time with the most intense Langmuir wave spikes, providing evidence for the electrostatic decay instability. Langmuir waves often occur as envelope solitons, suggesting that strong turbulence processes, such as modulational instability and soliton formation, often coexist with weak turbulence processes, such as electrostatic decay, in a few type III burst source regions.
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Thejappa, G., MacDowall, R.J. Ulysses observations of nonlinear wave-wave interactions in the source regions of type III solar radio bursts. J Astrophys Astron 21, 447–450 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02702442
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02702442