Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008phpl...15h2114h&link_type=abstract
Physics of Plasmas, Volume 15, Issue 8, pp. 082114-082114-8 (2008).
Physics
Plasma Physics
Macroinstabilities, Drift Waves, Transport Properties, Space Plasma Physics, Magnetohydrodynamics And Plasmas
Scientific paper
Superthermal particle distributions well-described by the family of κ-distributions have been observed in various astrophysical plasmas. In this paper, the drift kink instability in the current sheet with a κ-distribution is investigated in the framework of linear kinetic theory. The orbit integrals are treated numerically using the exact unperturbed particle orbits, and the resulting eigenvalue problem of the integro-differential equations is solved using the spectral method. The growth rate, eigenmode structure, and parametric dependencies of the kink mode are examined and compared with the case of the standard Harris current sheet. The results show that the drift kink instability in the κ-distribution current sheet resembles its counterpart in the standard Harris sheet, but has a smaller growth rate and real frequency for small value of κ. It is also demonstrated that a background population can enhance the growth rate of the kink mode, making the growth rate significant at the physical value of the ion-electron mass ratio.
Chen Yinhua
Hu Youjun
Huang Feng
Yang Weihong
Zhang Yu
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