Breakthrough laboratory study illuminates conditions for space plasma chorus emissions

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 18, 2024

In a landmark study, scientists from the National Institute for Fusion Science in Toki, Japan, and the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Frontier Sciences have successfully replicated the conditions of a planetary magnetosphere within a laboratory setting to investigate the spontaneous excitation of "chorus emissions" in space plasma. This research, leveraging the RT-1 device-an art