Alfven waves in dusty interstellar plasmas

Details Alfven waves in dusty interstellar plasmas Alfven waves in dusty interstellar plasmas

Aug 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997pasa...14..170c&link_type=abstract

Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 170-78

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Ism, Clouds, Dust, Mhd, Plasmas

Scientific paper

Dust particles in a plasma can be highly charged, and can carry a proportion of the negative charge of the plasma. Even if this proportion is quite small, as in interstellar dusty clouds, it can have a large effect on hydromagnetic Alfven waves propagating at frequencies well below the ion-cyclotron frequency. In particular, the right-hand circularly polarised mode experiences a cutoff due to the presence of the dust. We generalise previous work on Alfven waves in dusty interstellar plasmas by considering the general dispersion relation for waves propagating at an arbitrary angle with respect to the magnetic field. Wave energy propagating at oblique angles to the magnetic field in an increasing density gradient can be very efficiently damped by the Alfven resonance absorption process in a dusty plasma, and we consider this damping mechanism for waves in interstellar clouds.

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