Abstract
An earlier experiment established at least the occasional existence of ion-acoustic waves in the auroral plasma. As would be expected from theoretical considerations the waves were found to be propagating in a plane perpendicular to the undisturbed local magnetic field. The present experiment reveals the presence of such waves propagating in directions which diverge significantly (approx 6°) from the preferred plane. It is suggested that the existence of a large horizontal sheet current could account for the observations by distorting the magnetic field more or less uniformly over a large volume of the ionosphere.
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