Ballooning mode instability at the plasmapause

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Apr 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....95.4007l&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, April 1, 1990, p. 4007-4016.

Physics

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Ballooning Modes, Geomagnetic Micropulsations, Magnetohydrodynamic Stability, Plasmapause, Geomagnetism, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves

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The ballooning mode instability, which can excite hydromagnetic waves at the plasmapause, is studied in the presence of azimuthal plasma flows induced during geomagnetically disturbed periods. A general sufficient criterion for the ballooning mode stability is derived, for a change in the potential energy greater than or equal to 0, which involves the integration over an entire field line. A local stability analysis at the equatorial plasmapause region shows that the ballooning modes could be spontaneously generated via instability under at least two conditions: one is similar to the usual interchange condition, and the second to the quasi-interchange modes. Both of these local instability conditions can be derived from the general stability criterion. Finally an exact solution for the equilibrium state with flow is derived analytically, and the change in the potential energy is computed numerically. It is found that, in the cases studied, the flow does not spontaneously excite the ballooning modes; it only further stabilizes (or destabilizes) the ballooning spectrum if originally the system is stable (or unstable). The analysis would be useful for the interpretation of some of the low-frequency modes observed at the ground and near the equatorial plasmapause.

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