Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1975
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975aujph..28..101m&link_type=abstract
Australian Journal of Physics, vol. 28, Feb. 1975, p. 101-113.
Physics
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Astronomical Models, Electrostatic Waves, Plasma Waves, Solar Radio Emission, Wave Interaction, Whistlers, Cyclotron Radiation, Plasma Frequencies, Plasma Radiation, Propagation Modes, Solar Corona, Solar Physics
Scientific paper
Three-wave interactions in which one of the waves is a whistler and the other two are higher frequency waves are examined. The suggestion by Chiu (1970) and Chin (1972) that radio emission near the fundamental plasma frequency might arise in the solar corona from the coalescence of a whistler wave with a Langmuir wave is shown to be unacceptable because the resonance condition for the three-wave interaction cannot be satisfied. Modifications aimed at overcoming this objection are explored. In particular it is pointed out that a spectrum of Langmuir waves evolves into a spectrum of Z-mode waves because of nonlinear interactions in a magnetoactive plasma, but that the coalescence of a Z-mode wave with a whistler can occur only under implausibly restrictive conditions. Explicit expressions which describe the three-wave interactions are derived, and these are used to treat the scattering of transverse waves (and also of Langmuir waves) by whistlers. It is suggested that such scattering may be important in regions of the solar corona where energetic electrons are trapped.
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