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K. MUNAKATA∗,‖, S. YASUE∗, C. KATO∗, J. KOTA†, M. TOKUMARU‡, M. KOJIMA‡, A. A. DARWISH§, T. KUWABARA¶ and J. W. BIEBER¶ ∗Department of Physics, Shinshu University Asahi 3-1-1, Matsumoto, Nagano 390-8621, Japan †Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA ‡Solar Terrestrial Environmental Laboratory, Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan §Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University Alexandria, Egypt ¶Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA ‖[email protected]