The electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) technique is a direct method to probe the nuclear spin coherences induced by electron spin transitions. Recently, this approach was used to study an isotopically pure YSiO crystal doped with Yb ions, and the presence of the Fermi contact interaction was proposed to explain the frequency comb detected in the two-pulse ESEEM experiment [Solovarov N. K. et al. JETP Letters 115 (6): 362-67]. Here we simulate the Fourier images of the ESEEM data. The numerical analysis shows that the modulation is mainly due to the nuclear spin coherences induced by the dipole-dipole interactions. However, the correlation between the experimental and simulated data is better when the super-hyperfine interactions of the nearby yttrium nuclei have an additional isotropic contribution. The analysis of the rescaled X-band ESEEM spectra shows that for the EPR transitions at magnetic fields > 100 mT, the main contribution to the modulation comes from the oscillations of the individual nuclei and the effect of interference between coherences originating from several nuclei is not strong. Further experiments to distinguish the sources of the echo modulation are discussed.

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