Electromagnetic instabilities driven by cool heavy ion beams

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Jun 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986jgr....91.6825w&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 91, June 1, 1986, p. 6825-6832. DOE-sponsored research.

Physics

72

Electromagnetic Interactions, Heavy Ions, Ion Beams, Particle Interactions, Solar Wind, Beam Interactions, Computerized Simulation, Magnetic Variations, Nonlinear Systems, Thresholds

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The effects of the mass and density of cool, heavy ion beams on the linear and nonlinear characteristics of right-hand resonant and nonresonant electromagnetic ion beam instabilities are analyzed. The magnetic helicity and Alfven speed for a computer simulated complete linear dispersion equation for electromagnetic instabilities are examined. The data reveal that the maximum growth rate of the resonant mode and the threshold velocity of the nonresonant mode decrease with beam mass; however, the maximum growth rate of the nonresonant mode and the threshold velocity of the resonant mode are independent of the beam mass. The role reversal of the instabilities which occur when a heavy ion beam is the more dense component is studied. The nonlinear behavior of the instabilities is described; variations in the magnetic field fluctuation levels and the beam mass dependence are investigated. It is observed that at low beam density the magnetic field fluctuation level increases with beam mass and at higher beam density the fluctuation level correlates with the core mass. The instability data are applied to observations of Venus and the Comet Giacobini-Zinner.

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