Landau damping and steepening of interplanetary nonlinear hydromagnetic waves

Details Landau damping and steepening of interplanetary nonlinear hydromagnetic waves Landau damping and steepening of interplanetary nonlinear hydromagnetic waves

Oct 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977jgr....82.4711b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 82, Oct. 1, 1977, p. 4711-4714.

Physics

Interplanetary Space, Landau Damping, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Shock Fronts, Collisionless Plasmas, Larmor Precession, Mariner 5 Space Probe, Nonlinear Equations, Satellite Observation, Wave Equations

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According to collisionless shock theories, the thickness of a shock front should be of the order of the characteristic lengths of the plasmas (the Debye length, the proton and Larmor radii, etc.). Chao and Lepping (1974), found, however, that 30% of the observed interplanetary shocks at 1 AU have thicknesses much larger than these characteristic lengths. It is the objective of the present paper to investigate whether the competition between nonlinear steepening and Landau damping can result in a wave of finite width that does not steepen into a shock. A heuristic model of such a wave is developed and tested by the examples of two structures that are qualitatively shocklike, but thicker than expected from theory. It is found that both events are in the process of steepening and their limiting thicknesses due to Landau damping are greater than the corresponding proton Larmor radius for both structures as observed at Mariner 5 (nearer the sun than 1 AU) but are comparable to the proton Larmor radius for Explorer (near 1 AU) observations.

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